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

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