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Bloom, Dan – MDRC, 2010
The budget for the U.S. Department of Labor for Fiscal Year 2010 includes a total of $45 million to support and study transitional jobs. This paper describes the origins of the transitional jobs models that are operating today, reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of this approach and other subsidized employment models, and offers some…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Welfare Services, Supported Employment, Employment Programs
Cort, Maureen A.; Pappalardo, Michele F.; Gonzalez, Manuel A. – 1999
This manual was developed by a project to create a model program that integrates basic skills instruction with requirements of welfare reform, and the project's final report describes activities taken to develop the manual. The report details the problem, goals, procedures, objectives met and not met, and an evaluation. The manual is designed to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Employment Services
Cort, Maureen; Krouse, Nancy; Gonzalez, Manuel – 1998
This document begins with a report describing a Northampton Community College project to develop a manual to help adult literacy providers understand how they fit into welfare reform. The accompanying manual consists of four sections corresponding to the project's four objectives. Section 1, intended to enable adult literacy providers to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education, Harrisburg, PA. – 1981
In Pennsylvania where 30 percent of the adult population is functionally illiterate and another 24 percent has only marginal competence, no state funds are appropriated for adult basic education and general educational development (ABE/GED) programs. All programs are supported by federal aid. Information shows that economic revitalization and a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Economic Development