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In September 2023, the Employment and Training Administration announced $16 million in Critical Sectors Job Quality grants to support organizations in 12 states as they pilot strategies to improve job quality and increase the availability of good...

Apprenticeship has been used by businesses to recruit, train, and retain a highly skilled and productive workforce for more than 75 years in the U.S. Today, employers are taking advantage of this flexible training strategy to operate...

SkillWorks is a nationally recognized workforce funder collaborative and public/private partnership between the Boston Foundation, the City of Boston, launched in 2003 to improve workforce development in Boston and across the...

In 2005, Arkansas began its Career Pathways Initiative, a cross-system model to fund tuition and non-tuition related expenses for low-income, educationally underprepared parents. CPI leverages federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)...

This resource was created by the Promoting Employment Opportunities for Survivors of Trafficking project, the guide highlights the collaboration between victim service providers and the workforce development system.

The Department of Labor’s (U.S. DOL) Competency Model Clearinghouse includes the updated Food and Beverage Service Competency Model based on a review of training standards, feedback from employers, and in-depth interviews with subject matter...

This project's purpose is to advance the evidence base in the career pathways field by addressing key research gaps and drawing primarily on existing data. The project's goal is to inform career pathways systems and program development to help...

Young people confront many obstacles as they transition from school to work. Registered apprenticeship provides an opportunity for youth to learn valuable occupational skills while earning wages and can help reduce the challenges they face when...

Examines current minimum wage policies including the tipped minimum wage and provides evidence to support eliminating the tipped minimum wage in favor of one regular federal minimum wage.

Studies the fast food and hotel/motel industries to examine how the business practices of these industries are related to their compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act.