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This brief reviews relevant research about employer engagement, describes challenges in engaging employers, and synthesizes key elements that support business partnerships with workforce system programs. Partnership elements that may be used to...

To support states in strengthening capacity, the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration offers a technical assistance opportunity—the Peer Learning Cohort on Evaluation (EvalPLC). This brief summarizes activities,...

W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research compiled this collection of chapters and case studies that push for potentially transformative workforce development and education strategies designed to improve opportunities for job seekers,...

Overview This is an evaluation of New York City’s Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE) program, a large-scale welfare-to-work program for recipients with work-limiting medical or mental health conditions. 

Overview This report contains 3 randomized control trial evaluations of non-government job training programs that partner with local employers to give their participants a pipeline to a stable, well-paying job.

Description: The National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ (NASWA) Center for Employment Security Education and Research released this report summarizing the current research and analysis capacity of its member state workforce agencies. In...

Description: National Skills Coalition created this document to outline the differences between WIA and WIOA as they relate to occupational training, adult education, and family literacy.

Description: This study analyzed the net impact and cost-benefit of the Washington state Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program

Description: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and a local American Job Center in Michigan tested whether a series of short email messages could increase the percentage of Unemployment Insurance recipients who scheduled, attended, and completed a...

This collection of resources provides state workforce agency (SWA) program administrators, local service providers, evaluation managers, and evaluators with resources and reference materials to support designing culturally responsive studies,...