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Glasmeier, Amy – 1988
This report questions whether high-tech development is an option for rural counties in the United States by examining the spatial location, industrial composition, growth experience, and environmental factors associated with high-tech industries in such counties. Using a highly detailed database of manufacturing plants and estimates of employment,…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Employment Patterns, Job Development, Labor Needs
Download full textSperber, Leslie; Bloom, Dan – 2002
Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project (WRP), which was implemented in 1994-2001, required that single-parent welfare recipients who could not find wage-paying jobs after receiving cash assistance for 30 months accept work in subsidized, minimum-wage community service employment (CSE) positions to satisfy their work requirement and improve their…
Descriptors: Community Services, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Employment Qualifications
McDiarmid, G. Williamson; Goldsmith, Scott; Killorin, Mary; Sharp, Suzanne; Hild, Carl – 1998
A majority of adults in most Alaska Native villages were without jobs in 1990, and the situation was probably not substantially better in 1998. This report summarizes current Alaska Native employment data and employment trends, provides information on public and private programs that target Native hire, and describes promising approaches for…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Alaska Natives, Economic Development, Educational Needs
Cordova, Lorraine – 2002
Alaska's State Training and Employment Program (STEP) was designed with the primary objective of reducing current and future claims against Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits by providing training to those who are unemployed or facing unemployment. STEP is also charged with fostering growth of existing businesses and attracting new businesses to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Definitions, Demand Occupations, Educational Finance
Maine State Dept. of Human Services, Augusta. – 1981
A committee examined the number, type, and quality of work and training opportunities available for heads of households under Maine's Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Program and suggested ways to improve them. Comprised of such representatives of the private and public sectors as employers, AFDC recipients, welfare advocates,…
Descriptors: Coordination, Economic Development, Educational Cooperation, Educational Finance
Levy, Stephen – 2001
Despite 6 years of economic growth, California's workforce investment system faces the following challenges: (1) meeting the needs of workers who do not earn enough to bring their families significantly above the poverty level; (2) meeting the needs of employers who face continuing shortages of workers with needed skills; and (3) meeting the needs…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Development, Career Ladders, Definitions
Hadland, Jeff; Landry, Gerald – 2002
The performance of Alaska's State Training and Employment Program (STEP) in fiscal 2000 was evaluated by matching the records of participants of the following STEP subprograms with Alaska and Washington state unemployment insurance (UI) wage records and federal military and federal civilian payroll records. Data were collected for participants of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Definitions, Demand Occupations, Dislocated Workers
Peters, Alan H.; Fisher, Peter S. – 2002
The effectiveness of state enterprise zone programs was examined by using a hypothetical-firm model called the Tax and Incentives Model-Enterprise Zones (TAIM-ez) model to analyze the value of enterprise zone incentives to businesses across the United States and especially in the 13 states that had substantial enterprise zone programs by 1990. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Corporations, Cost Effectiveness, Definitions
