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State Workforce Policy Initiative
This initiative was launched in 1997 to assist states with the design and implementation of workforce development policies. Participating states developed partnerships involving employers, local governments and education and training organizations. Progress was measured in terms of program participants' job retention and wage progression; states' ability to influence policy and practice through such initiatives was also evaluated.
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PUBLICATIONS
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Promoting Opportunity: Findings from the State Workforce Policy Initiative on Employment Retention and Advancement
by Carol Clymer, Anne Roder and Brandon Roberts
September 2005,
38 pages
Promoting Opportunity is the final report on the State Workforce Policy Initiative, which was based on the premise that low-income individuals with limited work experience and skills may be able to obtain jobs, but they also need support to minimize barriers to steady employment and to advance to better positions in order to achieve long-term economic stability. During the four-year initiative, P/PV documented the efforts of five states to incorporate retention and advancement strategies into local workforce development programs and to strengthen state workforce policies to support these strategies. This report describes the results of their efforts, including an analysis of the outcomes of 477 individuals who participated in the local programs. The evidence suggests that retention and advancement strategies have the potential to benefit low-income workers, and the authors highlight promising program practices and implications for state policy.
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States of Change
by Carol Clymer, Brandon Roberts and Julie Strawn
May 2001,
34 pages
States of Change documents efforts by state policymakers and local practitioners to devise useful approaches to helping low-income job seekers stay employed and begin advancing. It draws, in part, from our experiences working on these issues since 1997 with five states—Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma and Florida—as well as on examples and lessons in several other states. In general, states are trying a number of retention strategies, but few have been tested. Therefore, we expect that many strategies discussed will soon be modified or replaced with new approaches. We hope that States of Change encourages this process of testing and innovation by providing a sense of what is being tried and learned around the country, and what challenges remain.
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State Workforce Policy Initiative
December 1999,
6 pages
This report describes the goals and program elements of P/PVs State Workforce Policy Initiative, a five-state initiative designed to develop effective employment retention and skills-upgrading strategies to assist Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) recipients and other low income job seekers in earning enough to move out of poverty. While no two strategies are alike, each states strategy takes into account the needs of local employers, as well as the skills barriers and record of poor job retention present among so many entering the workforce. The report describes each states individual strategy and recaps the key issues faced in the work first policy climate.
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