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Workforce Development

You are in the Workforce Development section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation. Resources address supporting families to develop the skills and education necessary to get good jobs and build careers.

See also the Our Work: Economic Security, an overview of the Casey Foundation's investments in this issue.

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Improving Access to Apprenticeship: Strengthening State Policies and Practices

2011

This report looks at how apprenticeship is ripe for a rebirth as the nation’s premier pathway to higher education and sustainable careers across a wide range of industries, work settings, and geographic regions.

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Youth and Work: Restoring Teen and Young Adult Connections to Opportunity

2012

In this KIDS COUNT policy report, the Casey Foundation finds that nearly 6.5 million U.S. teens and young adults are neither in school nor in the workforce. With employment among young people at its lowest levels since the 1950s, these youth are veering toward chronic unemployment as adults and failing to gain the skills employers need in the 21st century. In addition to new national and state data on the issue, the report offers recommendations to support youth in gaining a stronger foothold in the economy.

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Opportunity Road: The Promise and Challenge of America's Forgotten Youth

2012

This report highlights the strategies that are currently working to give “opportunity youth” with challenging life circumstances the right combination of training, support and experiences to make successful transitions to meaningful careers.

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Alternative Employment Strategies for Hard-to-Employ TANF Recipients

2011

This report presents final results from an evaluation of two different welfare-to-work strategies for hard-to-employ recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in Philadelphia.

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Publication thumbnail for Big Ideas for Jobs Creation: Rethinking Work Opportunity From Tax Credits to Subsidized Job Placements

Big Ideas for Jobs Creation: Rethinking Work Opportunity From Tax Credits to Subsidized Job Placements

2011

This paper looks at proposals from more than a dozen leading experts who have come up with practical, scalable proposals that will create more jobs for the U.S. economy.

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Big Ideas for Job Creation: A Policy Brief Highlighting Job Creating Initiatives

2011

This report summarizes the work of Big Ideas for Job Creation, a project of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, which tapped into the innovative thinking of leading experts across the nation to develop job creation proposals.

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