On March 13-14, 2012, the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) convened the Promising Pathways Initiative Innovation Institute in Washington, DC. The Promising Pathways Initiative provides technical assistance to state and local TANF programs and…

This paper is from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and authors use data from the Current Population Survey to summarize labor market trends in the U.S. over the past 30 years. The data show unevenness…

The Center for Economic and Policy Research authored this report with support from the Ford Foundation and the Public Welfare Foundation. More than 40 percent of the unemployed in 2011 had been unemployed for six months or longer. In this paper,…

The Connecticut Employment & Training Commission released a report describing the most prominent State strategies for building and promoting career pathways. These strategies were pulled from a review of literature on career advancement…

WorkforceOne held a Webinar presentation walking through the CareerOneStop online center. CareerOneStop is a suite of tools to help job seekers explore careers, investigate salary and benefit information, research education and training…

The U.S. Department of Labor launched the “Equal Pay App Challenge,” a national competition to develop software applications, or “apps,” that leverage public data to promote equal pay for men and women. In the U.S., women make up half of the…

From the Lumina Foundation, this video clip provides information on a public-private partnership in Louisville, Kentucky. The partnership has set a goal of adding 55,000 bachelors and associate degrees by the year 2020. The partnership is a…

This curriculum was developed by the Office of Disability Employment Policy within the U.S. Department of Labor. The curriculum focuses on “soft” workforce readiness skills for youth ages 14 to 21, including youth with disabilities. Built in…

The Urban Institute authored this issue brief on the multisite Housing Opportunity and Services Together (HOST) demonstration. The demonstration tests strategies using housing as a way to get vulnerable families services that they need to reach…

Using data from a Pew Research Center survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this report provides information on young adults in the labor market. Only 54 percent of young adults ages 18 to 24 are currently employed, which is the lowest since…