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Download full textBuncher, Amanda; Ward, Rashad; Kinkade, Anela; Pflug, Brandon – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2022
People with disabilities are employed at a rate much lower than people without disabilities (Erickson et al., 2022). People with disabilities can be excellent employees who bring a wide range of skills and abilities to their work. Businesses may experience increased productivity and positive publicity as benefits to hiring people with disabilities…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Potential, Employment Patterns, Underemployment
Adams, Chithra; Kleinert, Harold; Sheppard-Jones, Kathy; Corbin, Amanda; Bishop, Malachy – Human Development Institute, 2017
Young adults with disabilities face multiple challenges in obtaining successful post-school employment outcomes. This situation has remained relatively unchanged despite nearly 25 years of federal attention to the issue, including mandated transition services and a series of additional significant legislative responses. KentuckyWorks is a…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Severe Disabilities
Direct linkHunter, Boyd H. – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2010
The idea of pathways indicates many possible journeys to some destination or outcome. Hence, even if everyone agreed that Indigenous school leavers should be moving towards "productive" employment, it is not easy to talk about "what works" as there are different paths that may suit different people. Indeed given the diverse…
Descriptors: Employment, Indigenous Populations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Practices
King, Christopher T.; Schexnayder, Deanna T. – 1992
A multiyear research project was conducted to document and analyze state and local coordination among programs designed to move Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients in Texas from welfare dependency to economic self-sufficiency and to assess the degree to which coordination resulted in movement from welfare into employment. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Comparative Analysis, Coordination, Differences
Lidman, Russell M.; Weeks, Gregory C. – 2001
The Washington State welfare reform program WorkFirst is designed to move individuals from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) into the workforce. A critical question facing the program is how to assist participants in sustaining and advancing their employment. Three studies of those who exited the program measured multiple outcomes…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Dropout Characteristics, Employment Counselors, Employment Level
Mangum, Garth L. – 1987
Despite the fact that American society persistently separates home from workplace and extends adolescence, most American youth make the school-to-work transition with a minimum of pain and reasonable success. A substantial minority do not, however, and there is need to improve the transition process especially for those who have been economically…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Economic Factors, Education Work Relationship
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1985
As demographic changes and new labor supply requirements develop in the years ahead, older workers are sure to become even more important to employers and to society as a whole. To date, most employers have just begun to formulate policies to manage an aging work force in a changing economy. Some firms, however, have begun to respond pragmatically…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Business Responsibility, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning
Fein, David J. – 1994
A study examined the impacts of different education and training (E&T) assignments in Ohio's Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program on the employment and earnings of Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients who became mandatory JOBS clients in 1989 or 1990. Data on the JOBS assignments and earnings and employment…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Programs, Comparative Analysis
Illinois State Dept. of Public Aid, Springfield. – 1995
This report examines the operation and outcomes of Illinois' welfare programs in fiscal year 1995. The Illinois Department of Public Aid's new emphasis on providing incentives/assistance to move welfare recipients from welfare to work is explained. Next, the following programs are discussed: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Job…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annual Reports, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Community Colleges
Sum, Andrew; And Others – 1996
Over the past 2 decades, the inflation-adjusted median weekly earnings of full-time employed males and females decreased by 31% and 13%, respectively, and the deterioration in the real weekly earnings of young adults (ages 18-24) shows no signs of abatement. Male high school dropouts and graduates with no postsecondary schooling experienced the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Youth Studies Abstracts, 1984
These abstracts summarize 73 research projects that were conducted in Australia during 1982 and 1983 to investigate various issues related to youth employment and unemployment. Included among the topics addressed in the individual research projects are the following: economic developments, education and rural communities; employment (changing…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Career Education, Cooperative Programs
Orr, Margaret Terry – 1996
Wisconsin's Youth Apprenticeship Program in printing (YAP) features the following elements: competency-based curriculum and assessment systems; 2-year, part-time paid training and work experiences at one or more printing companies; work-based mentoring; technical college instruction in printing technology and some academic courses; integrated…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Advisory Committees, Apprenticeships, Career Development
