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Issue: 2011-08
Privatization and Employment in the Implementation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): A Multi-Level Analysis
DescriptionPrivatization in the implementation of social welfare programs represents a relatively unexplored administrative strategy and little remains known of its origins and consequences. After briefly exploring the antecedents of welfare contracting across the American states, this research utilizes multi-level modeling techniques to examine the consequences of privatization on the employment outcomes …
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-07
Evaluation of the Technology-Based Learning Grants Interim Report
DescriptionIn January 2009, ETA awarded funds to 20 grantees in 16 states under a $10 million competitive grant opportunity to develop and implement TBL projects over a three-year period. Grantees include universities and community colleges, private non-profit organizations, a state workforce agency, and a local workforce investment board. The size of the TBL grants ranged widely, from a low of $154,018 to …
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Issue: 2011-06
Early Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Workforce Development and Unemployment Insurance Provisions Interim Report
DescriptionThe Employment and Training Administration (ETA) received economic stimulus funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) that were intended to provide jobs, expand access to Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits, employment services, and retrain millions of unemployed workers during the ""Great Recession". Programs that received additional allocated funds …
PopulationAdult
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance, Unemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-05
Analysis of Associations between Contemporaneous Job Corps Performance Measures and Impact Estimates from the National Job Corps Study
DescriptionThis study explores associations between performance measures used by Job Corps and estimates of impacts for individual Job Corps centers. The analysis relies on data gathered in 1994-1996 in the course of Mathematica’s National Job Corps Study (NJCS), a rigorous random assignment evaluation of the program, and Job Corps’ contemporaneous administrative data. The NJCS found that Job Corps centers …
PopulationYouth
ProgramJob Corps
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Issue: 2011-04
Workforce System One-Stop Services for Public Assistance and Other Low-Income Populations: Lessons Learned in Selected States
DescriptionIn 2009, under a grant from the Employment and Training Administration, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government undertook a field network research study of selected sites to examine how Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) clients are served by the Workforce Investment Act’s (WIA) One-Stop Career Centers. The research sought to define the nature of the cooperative, …
PopulationAdult
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-03
Evaluation of the Priority of Service Provision of the Jobs for Veterans Act by the Workforce Investment System in Providing Service to Veterans
DescriptionCongress passed the Jobs for Veterans Act (JVA) in 2002 to improve employment and training services for veterans and to encourage employers to hire them. Under JVA, the Department of Labor is required to "evaluate whether covered persons" (veterans and certain eligible spouses) are receiving priority of service (POS) in the workforce investment system. This study is an action item the Employment …
PopulationVeterans and Spouses
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-22
Examining a New Model for Prisoner Re-Entry Services: The Evaluation Of Beneficiary Choice
DescriptionThis report addresses the Employment and Training Administration’s Beneficiary Choice model, which offered ex-offenders a choice of community-based programs to help them reintegrate into their communities. Grantees engaged in performance-based contracts with local faith-based and community organizations that acted as specialized service providers to provide a range of employment-focused services …
PopulationAdult
ProgramRe-integration of Ex-Offender
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-02
The Implementation Evaluation of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts Demonstration (2009)
DescriptionIn 2007, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) began a joint initiative to support the spouses of military personnel in their pursuit of portable postsecondary degrees or industry-recognized credentials. Through the Military Spouse Career Advancement Account (CAA) Demonstration, eligible spouses could obtain an account to pay for career-related education and …
PopulationVeterans and Spouses
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-1
Evaluation of SchoolDistrict-Based Strategies for Reducing Youth Involvement in Gangs and Violent Crime
DescriptionIn 2007, the Employment and Training Administration provided funding to five school districts to improve services to youth who are involved, have been involved or are at risk of involvement with gangs or the juvenile justice system. A variety of educational, employment, and violence prevention programs and strategies were developed and designed to increase academic performance, lower the …
PopulationYouth
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Issue: 2010-17
Survival Literacy Training for Non-Native-English-Speaking Workers
DescriptionAccording to the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) data, 62 percent of non-native-English-speaking workers are Hispanic, more than a third do not have a high school diploma, about 20 percent do not speak English, and 25 percent learned English as adults but likely have limited English skills. The report, Survival Literacy Training for Non-Native-English-Speaking Workers , …