Workplace Literacy Discussion List Colleagues,

I am pleased to be able to suggest the following resources which come
from a variety of sources.  May you find something here that interests
you!

Donna

 

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>From MDRC (Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.)

http://www.mdrc.org <http://www.mdrc.org/>  


Experimentation and Social Welfare Policymaking in the United States
<http://www.mdrc.org/sps/go.cgi?c=FmXi16biqEHYmNCuz7lw> 

In a speech given at a conference sponsored by the French government on
the role of experimental studies in reducing poverty, MDRC President
Gordon Berlin described how the results of random assignment studies
have acted as powerful levers for changing social policy in the United
States.
http://www.mdrc.org/publications/467/presentation.html 

 

Making Work Pay: How to Design and Implement Financial Work Supports to
Improve Family and Child Well-Being and Reduce Poverty

This guide draws heavily from MDRC's extensive experience over the past
decade designing and evaluating financial supports for work. While it
seeks to mine useful information from many different programs, the
knowledge it contains derives primarily from MDRC's direct study of
three programs providing financial support for work: the Minnesota
Family Investment Program (MFIP), Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project
(SSP), and Milwaukee's New Hope Project. All three programs increased
employment and earnings, while improving employment stability, boosting
income, and reducing poverty. The information in this guide emerges from
findings on the impact the programs made for participants and
government, as well as from MDRC's investigation into how the programs
were designed and implemented.

http://www.mdrc.org//publications/342/full.pdf
<http://www.mdrc.org/publications/342/full.pdf>  



Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
<http://www.mdrc.org/publications/353/policybrief.html> : The Role of
Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children 

Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the
patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and
discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual
objectives of child well-being and parental employment.

http://www.mdrc.org/publications/353/policybrief.html 

 

Why Has the Poverty Rate Not Fallen Since the Early 1970s?

Between the end of World War II and 1973, the percentage of Americans
living in poverty fell by half. Since then, however, the overall poverty
rate has remained largely unchanged. Why didn't poverty continue to
decline?

http://www.mdrc.org/area_fact_34.html 

 

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The Leitch Review of Skills: Prosperity for all in the global economy -
world class skills
The Leitch Review was tasked in 2004 with considering the UK's long-term
skills needs.
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/6/4/leitch_finalreport051206.pdf 

 

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>From the Center for American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org

<http://www.americanprogress.org/> 

 

Lifelong Learning: New Strategies for the Education of Working Adults

The American workforce is steadily becoming less educated just when
better and more diverse educational opportunities are essential for our
labor force to maintain its justifiably famous productivity, flexibility
and ingenuity. This report suggests five bold policy proposals that aim
to influence the ways that less-educated workers and their employers
spend their money so that together they invest more in education.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pdf/nes_lifelong_learning
.pdf 

 

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>From Skills2Compete http://www.skills2compete.org

<http://www.skills2compete.org/>  

 

America's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs: Education and Training
Requirements in the Next Decade and Beyond
<http://www.skills2compete.org/atf/cf/%7b8E9806BF-4669-4217-AF74-26F6210
8EA68%7d/ForgottenJobsReport%20Final.pdf>  (Harry Holzer and Robert
Lerman, 2007) Holzer and Lerman's analysis reveals that middle-skill
jobs make up nearly half of the jobs in today's labor market. Without
greater investments in education and skills training, future growth in
the supply of educated workers will likely fall short of the growth in
labor market demand. 

 	 
 
http://www.skills2compete.org/atf/cf/%7B8E9806BF-4669-4217-AF74-26F62108
EA68%7D/ForgottenJobsReport%20Final.pdf 

 

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2003. Virginia W. Knox, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott with Susan
Blank. 

Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the
patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and
discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual
objectives of child well-being and parental employment. 

 

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