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Download full textBeer, Allison; Bray, Jacob B. – Association of Community College Trustees, 2020
"Reskilling for the Pandemic Recession and Recovery" focuses on the U.S. economic downturn since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a disproportionate impact on Black and Hispanic individuals, women, and people without a postsecondary degree. Considering these challenges, the brief details policy proposals for…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Climate, Labor Force Development
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Direct linkSylvester, Paul; Myran, Steve – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This study synthesizes lessons learned about the promising role of "career navigators" at community colleges to aid students in the transitions through disjunctures in their careers. Career navigators are student support personnel who follow students from recruitment, through their studies or training programs, to job placement. Findings…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Career Planning, Career Counseling
Hilliard, Tom – Jobs for the Future, 2011
In 2007, Michigan undertook a bold mission: to retrain tens of thousands of adults to qualify for jobs in emerging and expanding sectors of the economy. The state's proposal to jobless, dislocated, and low-income residents was simple but appealing: enroll in up to two years of postsecondary education, and Michigan would cover up to $5,000 in…
Descriptors: Credentials, Economic Progress, Dislocated Workers, Community Colleges
Thomas, Frances S., Ed. – 1984
Each of the eight chapters of this report on life conditions of blacks living in Michigan addresses a different issue. The chapter titles (and their authors) are as follows: (1) "A Demographic Overview of Blacks in Michigan" (Maxie C. Jackson, Jr.); (2) "The Economic Status of Blacks in Michigan" (Karl D. Gregory); (3)…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Employment, Black Population Trends, Black Youth
Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr.; And Others – 1992
This report explores the circumstances and opinions of 71 parents from Baltimore, Maryland), Grand Rapids (Michigan), and New York City who were interviewed as part of a project aimed at increasing the employment opportunities and earnings of disadvantaged fathers, and the amount of the fathers' child support payments. This project, the Parents'…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Support, Children
National Committee on Employment of Youth, New York, NY. – 1963
A descriptive review of three job preparation programs for out-of-work youth and guidelines for organizing similar programs in local communities are presented. The programs ranged from a large operation in Detroit to smaller individualized programs initiated by Kalamazoo, Michigan, and North Richmond, California. They were designed primarily to…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Dropouts, Guidelines, High School Graduates
Sommerfeld, Donald Alfred – 1969
A followup study was made of 200 graduates (50 from each program) of different kinds of job training in Detroit, Michigan, during 1968 through the Northern Systems Company Training Center, the McNamara Skills Center, the Concentrated Employment Program Orientation and Operation Mainstream (CEPO-Mainstream), and the Direct On-the-job Training…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
Miller, Joe A.; Ferman, Louis A. – 1972
A sample of 1010 low-wage workers in Detroit (stratified by sex and welfare status) were interviewed in 1969. Data were collected on background characteristics, labor market experiences, and work career histories. The data relate to sexism as an important determinant of income in low-wage groups (women earn less and have lower status jobs),…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Potential
Somers, Gerald G., Ed. – 1968
Case histories evaluate the effectiveness of recent and current retraining programs for unemployed workers under Federal, state, municipal, and union-management auspices, judging them by their success in placing workers in useful employment in distressed economic areas. Data on various aspects of retraining programs under a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cost Effectiveness, Course Content, Educational Benefits
BUENAVENTURA, ANGELES – 1967
REPRESENTATIVES OF SPANISH-SPEAKING FORMER MIGRANTS (FARM WORKERS) AND OTHER DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, NEGRO AND WHITE, PARTICIPATED IN A PROGRAM, TO DEMONSTRATE THAT UNSKILLED PERSONS WITH LITTLE FORMAL EDUCATION AND LIMITED COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE COULD BE SUCCESSFULLY TRAINED AND PLACED IN OCCUPATIONS FOR WHICH THERE WAS LOCAL DEMAND AND…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Career Counseling, Demonstration Programs
Levitan, Sar A.; Miller, Elizabeth I. – 1992
In the 1980s and the early 1990s Congress failed to approve enterprise zone legislation which sought to help revitalize areas of high unemployment, poverty, and crime and low educational achievement by reducing taxes, relieving regulation, and eliminating other barriers to development. Establishment of comprehensive and sustained enterprise zone…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Federal Aid
Freedman, Stephen – 2000
The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies was conducted to explore whether programs examined in the evaluation have helped welfare recipients move into the labor force and remain employed over the long term. As part of the evaluation, a study was conducted to identify the 4-year impacts that 10 programs in 6 sites have had on former…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Education Work Relationship, Employment Level
