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Issue: 2009-5
The Effort to Implement the Youth Offender Demonstration Project (YODP) Impact Evaluation
DescriptionThe impact study of the Youth Offender Demonstration Project (YODP) was intended to be an ambitious random assignment evaluation that would address questions about how to work most effectively with youth offenders to prevent recidivism and increase their employment and earnings.   To answer these questions, the study proposed to have courts randomly assign youth offenders at conviction to …
PopulationYouth
ProgramRe-integration of Ex-Offender
Research MethodologyRCT (Randomized Control Trial)
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Issue: 2009-4
An Evaluation of the Latino Coalition's Reclamando Nuestro Futuro (Reclaiming our Future) Program
DescriptionIn 2004, the Department of Labor awarded a $10 million grant to the Latino Coalition to develop and deliver education and workforce development services to at-risk and adjudicated Latino youth.   The Latino Coalition developed a program titled Reclamando Nuestro Futuro (Reclaiming our Future), and, acting as an intermediary organization, awarded 28 grants over three years to faith and …
PopulationYouth
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2009-3
Evaluation of the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative
DescriptionIn November 2005, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) awarded grants to 30 Faith-Based and Community Organizations to implement a Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative (PRI) Demonstration.   The Initiative seeks to strengthen communities affected by large numbers of formerly incarcerated individuals through employment-centered projects that incorporate education, job training, housing …
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Issue: 2009-2
Registered Apprenticeship
DescriptionRegistered apprenticeship, administered at the Federal level by the U.S. Department of Labor, is a time-tested worker training method characterized by on-the-job learning, incremental wage increases, classroom instruction, and achievement of a recognized credential.   Site visits were conducted in five states with 37 registered apprenticeship sponsors, 79 apprentices, 19 state apprenticeship …
ProgramApprenticeship
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Issue: 2009-18
The Power of Partnership: American Regions Collaborating for Economic Competitiveness
DescriptionIn early 2006, ETA announced that 13 regions were to receive $15 million grants to promote regional collaboration of a wide range of public and private organizations with the goal of transforming their regional approaches for addressing economic challenges.   The grantees, selected competitively and referred to as the Generation I WIRED regions, were facing challenges from global competition and …
PopulationAdult
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Issue: 2009-17
Rapid Response and TAA
DescriptionThis report, based on site visits to 48 One-Stop Career Centers in 23 states conducted from mid-2004 to mid-2006, is part of a longer-term project to conduct a national, net-impact evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program.   The report summarizes findings on the relationship between TAA and Rapid Response, both of which are designed to assist dislocated workers.   Under Rapid …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance
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Issue: 2009-16
Linkages Between TAA, One-Stop Career Center Partners, and Economic Development Agencies
DescriptionThis report is based on site visits conducted from mid-2005 to mid-2006 to 41 One-Stop Career Centers and the state-level offices in the 19 states in which the centers are located.   The report, part of a longer-term project to conduct a national net-impact evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, describes the linkages that the TAA program has established with its One-Stop …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance
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Issue: 2009-15
Assessment, Case Management, and Post-Training Assistance for TAA Participants
DescriptionThis report is based on data from site visits conducted to 48 local One-Stop Career Centers in 2004 and from mid-2005 through the summer of 2006 as well as to state-level offices of 23 states in which the centers are located. The report is part of a longer-term project to conduct a national net-impact evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program. This report examines services …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance
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Issue: 2009-14
Initial Implementation of the Trade Act of 2002
DescriptionThe Trade Act of 2002 significantly amended the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program which provides extensive training and benefits to dislocated workers certified as trade-affected. The Act created a single program (repealing the North American Free Trade Agreement-TAA program), mandated that certification of workers’ petitions occur in 40 (down from 60) days by the U.S. Department of …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance
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Issue: 2009-13
Recent Changes in the Characteristics of Unemployed Workers
DescriptionThis paper examines how gender, racial, and ethnic differentials in unemployment and Unemployment Insurance (UI) receipt have changed over the past 50 years. The primary analysis focuses on the degree to which such differences, in the past 20 years, are explained by differences in the industrial and occupational structure of employment. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, the report finds …
ProgramUnemployment Insurance