Workforce Training Is Not Enough
Workforce training and retraining reach as few as 5% of the millions of low-income, low-skilled workers who need those services to move ahead.
This article by the Casey Foundation's Family Economic Success initiative, describes how communities can create successful workforce initiatives based on lessons and findings from the Foundation's Jobs Initiative (JI). The need for a more integrated, wholistic approach to cultivating the skills of those who lack vital job opportunities is more important today than ever before.
The emerging development of “workforce development” signals the recognition that businesses and workers are both key customers. The emphasis is on long-term labor market retention, career advancement and family self-sufficiency, not just on job-placement.