A study from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that 24 million Americans in the workforce have low literacy skills, and nearly 46 million Americans struggle with numeracy. This skills deficit…

Authored by the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Labor, this report summarizes the responses received from a joint Request for Information in April 2014, which solicited information on career pathways. Respondents…

This joint report from CLASP and the Center for American Progress explores the benefits of the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) programs. Twenty state grantees and two tribal grantees were interviewed about their…

A report and supplemental video from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce discuss the projection that there will be 1.6 job openings for nurses through 2020. However, it is also projected that the U.S. will face a shortfall…

This publication explains key provisions and implementation dates for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). It provides stakeholders with different opportunities to implement the provisions and programs enumerated in the Act.

This report, from the National Skills Coalition and the State Workforce and Education Alignment Project, explains how States can create dashboards to help State policymakers assess key outcomes across their State’s education and workforce programs,…

February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month and unfortunately, 1 in 10 American teenagers suffers physical violence at the hands of a boyfriend or girlfriend; many others are sexually or emotionally abused. The Family Violence…

This February 2015 publication from The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) explains key provisions and implementation dates for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). It provides stakeholders with different…

On August 5-6, 2014 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance (OFA) hosted the Tribal TANF Leadership Symposium in Washington, District of Columbia. This Symposium brought…

These research recommendation briefs were developed as part of a larger Needs Based Assessment that sought to discover what is known about low-income and at-risk lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their interactions with…