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Kathleen Bolter, Contributor; Tim Bartik, Contributor; Brad Hershbein, Contributor; Michelle Miller-Adams, Contributor; Lee Adams, Contributor; Brian Asquith, Contributor; Alfonso Hernandez, Contributor; Kyle Huisman, Contributor; Iryna V. Lendel, Contributor; Gabrielle Pepin, Contributor; Bridget Timmeney, Contributor; Beth Truesdale, Contributor; Yulya Truskinovsky, Contributor – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
The Policies for Place initiative at the Upjohn Institute brings together experts from around the country to study community-based strategies to create good jobs--and how to help people get and keep those good jobs. This initiative represents a unique approach to helping people in distressed places: (1) focus on good jobs because research shows…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Place Based Education, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
National Skills Coalition, 2021
The need to invest in our nation's crumbling infrastructure goes back decades. But today, with millions of people unemployed, there is unprecedented momentum to act. Women, immigrants, and people of color are disproportionately represented in these numbers as are young adults. President Joe Biden and Congress are counting on infrastructure…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Public Policy, Federal Legislation, Investment
National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY. – 1969
This booklet provides examples of challenging jobs that have been done by kids, often Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees. Jobs range from working with cops in Atlanta to helping the elderly in Chicago; from aiding emotionally disturbed children in Philadelphia to doing city wide surveys in Salinas, California. The jobs presented in this booklet…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Involvement, Community Support, Employment
Hartke, Vance – 1972
A bill to provide opportunities for employment to unemployed and underemployed persons, to assist States and local communities in providing needed public services, and for other purposes is presented. The Act is cited as the Full Employment Act of 1972, under the authority of the Secretary of Labor, and includes such states as the District of…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Careers, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Fazio, Ernest J., Jr.; And Others – 1980
Developed to assist Native American reservation program planners, this handbook highlights a number of exemplary uses of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) funds in reservation economic development, presents a discussion of the problems reservations may face in meeting the new funding directions of the federal government, and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Involvement
Smutny, Joan Franklin; And Others – 1982
Designed for use by high school students, their teachers, and counselors, these six learning modules contain creative materials to encourage individuals to think about their own talents, skills, interests, and capacities for job creation. Each module consists of student worksheets and teacher guides. Covered in the first five modules are the…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Behavioral Objectives, Career Choice, Career Education