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Issue: 1992
Report on Policy Academy on Families and Children at Risk
DescriptionIn 1989, the Council of Governors' Policy Advisors (CGPA) received funding for its State Policy Academy on Families and Children At Risk. This Academy was designed to support state governments in their attempts to improve family well-being. This report describes the results achieved by the 10 Family Academy states and offers specific guidance to others who wish to make similar efforts. Chapter …
PopulationYouth
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 1992
Study of the Implementation of the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act
DescriptionThis report summarizes the findings from the first phase of a 3- year study of the implementation of the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance (EDWAA) Act performed for the U.S. Department of Labor, based on the implementation experience of 15 states and 30 substate areas during Program Year 1989. This first phase consisted of case study investigations to asses the progress in …
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Issue: 1992
Dilemmas in Youth Employment Programming: Findings from the Youth Research and Technical Assistance Project
DescriptionSince the 196Os, the U.S. Department of Labor has underwritten a variety of programs and strategies designed to help youth make first connections with the labor market. These programs have been enacted under a succession of policy mandates, administrative structures, funding levels and political philosophies. Thus, their focus, scope and results have shifted, often dramatically, over the years. …
PopulationYouth
Research MethodologyLiterature Review
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Issue: 1992
Coordination of Housing and Job Training Services:A Review of Best Practices in 12 Cities
DescriptionEditor's Note: The following synopsis is based on materials extracted directly from the document. Job training and housing programs attack two of the most critical problems of low-income families: the need for training in skills that will enable them to secure stable and gainful employment; and the need for decent, safe, and affordable housing. In November 1990, the secretaries of Labor and …
PopulationAdult
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 1991-4
Evaluation of the Impacts of the Washington Initative Work Search Experiment
DescriptionThis work search experiment was conducted in Tacoma, Washington. It tested four work search approaches that ranged in philosophy from an ";exception-reporting"; approach with no specific work search directives or monitoring to an intensive reemployment assistance early in the unemployment spell. Approximately 10,000 new unemployment insurance (UI) claimants were randomly assigned to one of the …
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Issue: 1991-3
The Cyclical Effects of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program
DescriptionThis report presents an analysis of the effect of the unemployment insurance program as an automatic stabilizer and of recent changes in that effect. The report discusses the theoretical reasons that would enable the UI program to stabilize, to some extent, the business cycle; then presents some previous empirical evidence of this effect. It reviews the empirical literature concerning the ability …
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Issue: 1991-2
The Decline in Unemployment Insurance Claims Activity in the 1980s
DescriptionThe present report which analyzes the decline in UI benefit recipiency is divided into five sections. First, it presents some background facts about the decline. Second, it reviews previous literature that has examined this phenomenon. Third, it presents a descriptive analysis of new survey data collected expressly for the purpose of addressing the question. Fourth, it presents a statistical …
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Issue: 1991-1
The New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Re-Employment Demonstration Project Follow-Up Report
DescriptionThe purpose of the New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Reemployment Demonstration Project (NJUIRDP) was to examine whether the Unemployment Insurance system could be used to identify displaced workers early in their unemployment spells and to provide them with alternative, early intervention services to accelerate their return to work. Three packages of services, or treatments, were tested in the …
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Issue: 1991
An Assessment of the JTPA Role in State and Local Coordination Activities
DescriptionThe purpose of this report is to assess the role of program coordination in enhancing JTPA program effectiveness and efficiency. Specifically, it is intended to: (1) identify major strategies and characteristics of coordination, (2) assess the relative advantages and disadvantages of coordination, (3) identify factors that are effective in promoting and enhancing coordination, (4) assess legal, …
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Issue: 1991
JTPA Staffing and Staff Training at the State and SDA Levels
DescriptionThis report is concerned with JTPA staff at the state and local levels. Its particular focus is staff serving in the Title II-A program, which provides year-round employment and training services to economically disadvantaged adults and youth. However, at the state level, the study also encompasses any Title III (dislocated worker program) staff located within the JTPA unit, since in a number of …