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Issue: 2012-04
Innovative Programs and Promising Practices: Indian and Native American Summer Youth Employment Initiatives and the 2009 Recovery Act
DescriptionThe American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act) used various strategies to redress unemployment challenges experienced by disadvantaged youth. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) received $1.2 billion for youth training and employment services. ETA allocated about $17.8 million of these funds to Indian and Native American …
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Issue: 2012-03
Beyond a Summer Work Experience: The Recovery Act 2009 Post-Summer Youth Employment Initiative
DescriptionThrough the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), states received $1.2 billion in funding for Workforce Investment Act Youth Program activities to provide employment and training activities targeted to disadvantaged youth. In addition to supporting large-scale youth employment activities in the summers of 2009 and 2010, the Recovery Act also gave states the option to …
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Issue: 2012-02
Using TANF Funds to Support Subsidized Youth Employment: The 2010 Summer Youth Employment Initiative
DescriptionThrough the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), local areas throughout the country had the opportunity to offer subsidized summer employment to large numbers of youth in 2009 and 2010. In summer 2010, these initiatives relied largely on Recovery Act funds allocated to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency Contingency Fund (TANF Emergency Fund). …
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Issue: 2012-01
Employment Research in Brief: An Annotated Bibliography of ETA-Sponsored Studies
DescriptionThis annotated bibliography, developed by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., consists of succinct summaries of 124 publications the Employment and Training Administration issued between 1995 and 2011, including reports on the agency’s pilots and demonstrations, evaluations, and other research papers. Each entry typically corresponds to a single publication and contains a standard bibliographic …
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Issue: 2011-21
Evaluation of the Technology-Based Learning Grants Final Report
DescriptionIn June 2008, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) released a Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) to provide $10 million in funding for Technology-Based Learning (TBL) projects throughout the country. Based on responses to this SGA, ETA awarded funds in January 2009 to 20 grantees in 16 states to develop and implement TBL projects over a three-year period. These twenty grantees …
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Issue: 2011-20
Implementation and Early Training Outcomes of the High Growth Job Training Initiative: Final Report
DescriptionThe High Growth Job Training Initiative (HGJTI) was a national grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA). Between 2001 and 2007, more than 160 grants were awarded to establish industry-focused job training and related projects, designed to meet industry’s workforce challenges. This report is the third in a series from the national …
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Issue: 2011-19
Early Implementation Report: Mentoring, Educational, and Employment Strategies (MEES) to Improve Academic, Social and Career Pathway Outcomes in Persistently Dangerous Schools – Generation I
DescriptionOver a three year period from 2007 to 2009, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) provided funding to nine designated schools aimed at reducing violence by combining mentoring, educational, employment and other prevention strategies to change the school climate and improve academic performance. To learn from this effort, ETA contracted Social Policy Research Associates, Inc. to conduct …
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Issue: 2011-18
Early Implementation Report: Mentoring, Educational, and Employment Strategies (MEES) to Improve Academic, Social and Career Pathway Outcomes in Persistently Dangerous Schools – Planning Report
DescriptionOver a three year period from 2007 to 2009, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) provided funding to nine schools designated as "persistently dangerous" under the Unsafe School Choice Option of the No Child Left Behind legislation. The grants aimed to reduce violence and improve academic performance by combining mentoring, educational, employment and other prevention strategies to …
PopulationYouth
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Issue: 2011-17
Evaluation of the Career Advancement Accounts Demonstration Project: An Implementation Study
DescriptionThis report presents interim findings from an implementation study of the Career Advancement Account (CAA) Demonstration Project, an effort to test a voucher-based, consumer-driven, self-guided approach to providing access to training for the U.S. workforce. In the fall of 2006, eight states were awarded grants to participate in the CAA Demonstration Project – Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, …
PopulationAdult
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-16
Findings from a Study of One-Stop Self-Services: A Case-Study Approach
DescriptionThis report is the final report from an evaluation of the delivery of self-services in the One-Stop Career Center system. The evaluation profiles characteristics of customers who use self-services, motivations for using services, patterns of usage and outcomes that follow at selected One-Stop Career Centers nationwide. The report also examines ways that One-Stop Career Centers facilitate access …
PopulationAdult