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Targeting Industries, Training Workers and Improving Opportunities: The Final Report from the Sectoral Employment Initiative
by Anne Roder with Carol Clymer and Laura Wyckoff
November 2008 , 68 pages

This report presents findings from P/PV's Sectoral Employment Initiative, exploring challenges sectoral programs faced and examining participants outcomes, including employment, earnings, education, housing and household income. To read a press release about this report, click here.



P/PV President Fred Davie Quoted in New York Times Article "Working Poor and Young Hit Hard in Downturn"
Sharing the stories of several low-income working and unemployed youth in the Philadelphia area, reporter Erik Eckholm takes a close look at individuals and families that have been deeply affected by the recent economic downturn. P/PV President Fred Davie is quoted, recommending that the "new administration...think several levels down the ladder so the government invests not only in the top but also in infrastructure jobs and training for low-income people to get some of those jobs." To read the full article, click here.



P/PV's High School Students as Mentors Featured in Youth Today
This Youth Today article explores findings from High School Students as Mentors, by Carla Herrera, Tina J. Kauh, Siobhan M. Cooney, Jean Baldwin Grossman and Jennifer McMaken, examining some of the ways Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is working to improve training for high school mentors. Carla Herrera is quoted throughout, concluding that "there are things you can definitely do to bump up what these high school volunteers are capable of" and that they "need something different and something extra than what you would give adults." To read the full article, click here.




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