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Issue: 2014-03
Job Corps Process Study
DescriptionJob Corps is a comprehensive program designed to assist eligible unemployed and undereducated youth ages 16 through 24 who can benefit from intensive education and training services to become more employable, responsible, and productive citizens. The purpose of this 30-month-long process study of the Job Corps was to explore and identify center-level practices that are associated with center …
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Issue: 2014-01
Final Report Evaluation of the STEM Initiative
DescriptionAs noted by a number of observers, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have become increasingly central to U.S. economic competitiveness and growth. To focus on strengthening the job training system in its attempts in training workers to meet the industry needs in STEM occupations, ETA announced the "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Opportunities in …
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Issue: 2014-02
Mentoring Young Parents: A Guidebook for Programs Helping Youth and Young Parents Navigate a Pathway to Self-Sufficiency
DescriptionA growing body of research indicates that it is important for youth to have supportive relationships with adults to be able to achieve positive outcomes in academics, social settings, career development, health, and safety. However, many youth, including those who are young parents, lack such support and have few opportunities for developing positive relationships with older adults or other …
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Issue: 2014-06
Effect of Job Loss on Wealth Accumulation of Older Workers
DescriptionThis study examines the impact of job displacement on wealth holdings and wealth adequacy for older adults. This study uses data from the Health and Retirement Study from 1992 to 2010, a nationally representative longitudinal study of older American households aged 51 and over. The measures of wealth include net total wealth and subcomponents, such as the value of primary housing, other real …
PopulationAdult
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2013-24
Assessment of the Workforce System's Implementation of the Veterans' Priority of Service Provision of the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002
DescriptionProviding employment and training services for veterans has become an increasingly important policy focus in recent years as the number of service members returning from Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom has increased. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) places special emphasis on serving veterans through numerous programs and offices. One of the ways in which DOL serves veterans …
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Issue: 2013-23
Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Workforce Development and Unemployment Insurance Provisions Final Report
DescriptionThe American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) provided the workforce system with a large increase in resources to increase capacity, improve its structure, and provide additional economic support and services in response to the most recent recession. United States Department of Labor (USDOL) programs were a major part of the Recovery Act. At the time of the bill’s passage, USDOL …
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Issue: 2013-22
Partners, Networks, and the Economic Context for Generation II and III WIRED Grants: The Second Interim Report of the Evaluation of Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) Generations II and III
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
Five-Year Research and Evaluation Strategic Plan Program Years 2012-2017
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
Evaluation of the National Farmworkers Jobs Program (NFJP)
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
Evaluation of the Aging Worker Initiative: Interim and Final Reports
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 …