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Partnering With Employers to Promote Job Advancement for Low-Skill Individuals
Outlines the need for employer involvement in skills development programs that benefit both workers and businesses, barriers to the development of partnerships, promising approaches, and policy considerations for creating and sustaining partnerships
Economically viable domestic roofwater harvesting
Economically viable domestic roofwater harvestin
Better, faster, cheaper: research into roofwater harvesting for water supply in low income countries
Supporting Work For Low-Income People With Significant Challenges
Welfare programs require people to work, but some low-income adults struggle with major personal challenges that make it hard to find or hold down a job. In this essay, Loprest and Martinson recommend both short term changes to current programs and longer term efforts through a program for competitive federal matching block grants to states. These grants would support efforts to integrate programs that alleviate barriers to work with employment services and to evaluate these initiatives so policymakers can better understand what works
Supporting Work for Low-Income People With Significant Challenges Summary
Welfare programs require people to work, but some low-income adults struggle with major personal challenges that make it hard to find or hold down a job. In this summary, Loprest and Martinson recommend both short-term changes to current programs and longer-term efforts through a program for competitive federal matching block grants to states. These grants would support efforts to integrate programs that alleviate barriers to work with employment services and to evaluate these initiatives so policymakers can better understand what works
Helping Poor Working Parents Get Ahead: Federal Funds for New State Strategies and Systems
Examines the cost-effectiveness of state job advancement systems and outlines a proposal for federally funding programs that provide more education and training, greater access to better-paying jobs, and more robust financial incentives and supports
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