State skills corporations are public/private ventures designed to increase the supply of skilled workers in a state. Using public funds matched by private dollars, the corporations bring business and educational institutions together to train workers for skilled occupations. One of the principal goals of the corporations is to establish an organizational framework for developing a more productive work force that can outlast particular government employment training programs, such as the current federal Job Training Partnership Act or its predecessor, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. The skills corporations strive to build capacity in the state educational system to train and retrain workers and to establish ongoing contact between the business and education communities. The first skills corporation was created in Massachusetts, and the idea has since spread to Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Washington. (This report examines the original program in Massachusetts and the two southern programs in Florida and Kentucky.) (KC)