This American Enterprise Institute report looks at noncredit skills training as a potential approach for addressing the skills gap in various occupations and how industry-based certification from noncredit training can address the demand for…

This Upjohn Institute study is an interim first-year report of the Institute’s “Promise: Investing in Community” initiative. The report presents strategies that rural areas as well as small and mid-sized cities might deploy to create shared…

The Office of Family Assistance (OFA) presents a set of 14 videos which profile participants who completed training programs and have moved into economic independence from public assistance to employment. These success stories demonstrate that OFA…

This Brookings Institution study takes a strategic view to analyze the challenges and tools needed to support job creation and workforce development within California’s Inland Empire region. To advance opportunity, the report finds that the Inland…

This Jobs for the Future report identifies how rural community colleges offer academic and non-academic support for adult and non-traditional learners’ college retention and completion. While important for all first-generation students and adult…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report identifies a research design plan that will be used in interviewing up to 140 participants from among 27 HPOG 2.0 grantees across the country. The interviews will provide insights about…

This report from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) describes major welfare and family self-sufficiency research that OPRE’s Division of Economic Independence sponsored in Fiscal Year 2018. The five areas of research explored by…

This recent Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report reviews the implementation of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) 2.0 program. The report examines how the 32 grantees in this funding round developed their five-year annual…

In this February 6, 2019 webinar from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET, the WIOA performance accountability team from the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education will discuss recent federal guidance on data validation for state reporting. The webinar will…