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Malkus, Nat; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney; Sparks, Dinah – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This brief investigates teaching vacancies and difficult-to-staff teaching positions (i.e., positions for which the principals reported that it was very difficult to fill a vacancy or that they could not fill a vacancy in a specific subject area) in public schools in four school years (1999-2000, 2003-04, 2007-08, and 2011-12). This Statistics in…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Employment Opportunities, Public School Teachers, Teacher Recruitment
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2005
This essay, taken from the 2005 KIDS COUNT Data Book, examines four employment barriers that policymakers and others consider among the most difficult to overcome: substance abuse, domestic violence, a history of incarceration, and depression. These burdens can diminish a person's motivation and ability to find work. Furthermore, they can make it…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Poverty, Substance Abuse, Family Violence
National Committee for Full Employment, Washington, DC. – 1986
Although youth between the ages of 16 and 19 account for only 6.7 percent of the nation's labor force, they constitute 17.9 percent of the officially unemployed. Unemployment among youth is rising. More than 46 percent of the nation's black youth and nearly 39 percent of Hispanic children currently live below the poverty level. Moreover, real…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Employment, Black Youth, Demography