The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) will host a set of three professional development webinars, beginning on August 22, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. ET and continuing on September 26, 2019 and October 17, 2019. The first of…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report examines the Minnesota Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration (MSTED) program that is designed to increase employment outcomes for persons who receive benefits for more than six…

The U.S. Department of Labor will host a webinar on August 19, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET to re-introduce the agency’s Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR). This Clearinghouse identifies information…

This Urban Institute report offers a snapshot of frontline retail workers’ characteristics, circumstances that call for more working hours, and strategies that might be used to retain and advance workers in this industry. It also highlights training…

This Brookings Institution report examines both unemployment and the underemployment rate and identifies racial disparities in the rates for both economic categorizations. The report also analyzes data trends that point to the different labor market…

This Institute for Research on Poverty brief is a summary of an impact and benefit-cost analysis of the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Program (CSPED). Participating parents were given additional employment services to…

This toolkit issued by Reimagine Retail Chicagoland provides useful information on designing and implementing career pathways in the retail industry. The toolkit offers sources for labor market information that can be used to develop the pathways…

This Upjohn Institute working paper reviews how place-based jobs policies should target distressed areas and focus on firms that have high-multipliers (industries with high job growth potential beyond just the individual firm creating jobs). The…

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