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Issue: 2013-22
DescriptionThis is the second interim report of an evaluation of the 26 Generation II and III Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) grants, each of which was for $5 million. The WIRED Initiative involved three rounds (or “generations”) of ETA grants that were intended to stimulate transformational change in the economies and workforce programs in regional areas within states (and …
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Issue: 2013-21
DescriptionSection 171 of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 requires the Secretary of Labor to submit, every two years, a plan that describes demonstration and pilot, multiservice, research and multistate projects that focus on priorities for the Department of Labor concerning employment and training for the five-year period following the plan. This plan provides a strategic vision for research …
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Issue: 2013-20
DescriptionIn July 2010, the Employment and Training Administration contracted with Mathematica Policy Research for an evaluation study of the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP). The study had three main components: 1) case studies of NFJP grantees, based on site visits, to learn more about the context in which grantees’ operate, their partnerships in the community, their approaches for serving …
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Issue: 2013-19
DescriptionThese reports describe key aspects of the Aging Worker Initiative (AWI), developed by the Employment and Training Administration in response to the rising percentage of older workers in the labor force and the potential need for the workforce system to address their needs. AWI involved grants of about $1 million each, awarded competitively in the summer of 2009 to 10 local organizations in the …
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Issue: 2013-18
DescriptionIn an increasingly global and competitive economy, many workers in the United States seek to gain new skills or upgrade their current ones if they are to be successful in the labor market. At the same time, businesses, especially those in high-growth industries, face challenges recruiting, hiring, and retaining a skilled workforce. Community and technical colleges are important training …
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Issue: 2013-17
DescriptionThis report examines the Rapid Response function (mandated under the Workforce Investment Act) to provide assistance to individual workers, companies and communities in the event of plant closures and worker layoffs. The report describes multiple aspects of Rapid Response, including: a) the organization, staffing, and management of Rapid Response; b) services provided under Rapid Response to …
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Issue: 2013-16
DescriptionIn July 2010, Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration tasked IMPAQ International, LLC with conducting an implementation evaluation of four grant programs awarded in early 2010 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA): Energy Training Partnerships, Pathways Out of Poverty, State Energy Sector Partnership and Training, and Health Care Sector and Other …
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Issue: 2013-15
DescriptionThis report, one of a series of occasional papers from the Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, describes demographic and other characteristics of all trainees in the TAA program under the 2002 amendments, as well as information on the duration, occupational focus, costs, and providers of training and education funded by TAA Data for the report was obtained from a …
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Issue: 2013-14
DescriptionThis report focuses on how state and local workforce offices implemented key provisions of the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act (TGAAA), which was enacted in February 2009. TGAAA amended the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program by expanding eligibility to include service workers (in addition to manufacturing workers), broadening training options, enhancing Trade Readjustment …
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Issue: 2013-13
DescriptionThis report describes practices used by state workforce agencies to contact and educate workers, employers, and partner organizations about Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and, in some cases, to persuade key actors to participate in the program. TAA, targeted to dislocated workers who have been adversely affected by foreign trade, provides an array of services and income support benefits in …