Results List
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Challenge to Our Workforce: Young Adults and Low Literacy
Source: New York Nonprofit Press
Original Source by Peter Kleinbard Nearly 70% of youth who drop out of school have very poor literacy and other core skills. Indeed, this is the primary reason why they leave school. Yet most funding for dropouts is targeted to those who are most job…
Resource type: News
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Regional Economic and Workforce Strategies: A Focus on the Mature Workforce
Source: Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the Council on Competitiveness
Mature workers may be one of the most overlooked assets for regions needing skilled workers for economic growth, according to the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) and the Council on Competitiveness. This paper provides a look at representative strategies and programs for regional…
Resource type: Research Report
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Missouri House GOP rejects children's health-care expansion
Source: The Kansas City Star
by JASON NOBLE JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri House Republicans on Wednesday shot down an attempt by Democratic lawmakers and the governor to reduce health-care premiums and increase access for thousands of children. Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, had proposed expanding the number of families eligible…
Resource type: News
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WOW Works with Obama Administration to Advocate for Women and Families
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Following the U.S. Presidential Election, Atlantic grantee Wider Opportunities for Women has worked with the Obama Transition Team to advocate on a number of issues related to work, women and family. In late 2008, as a result of a letter to the President-Elect regarding priorities for his first 100…
Resource type: News
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Commitment to Service, Volunteerism
Source: CQ Congressional Testimony
COMMITMENT TO SERVICE, VOLUNTEERISM; COMMITTEE: HOUSE EDUCATION AND LABORCQ Congressional Testimony Statement of Harris Wofford Former Senator United States Committee on House Education and Labor February 25, 2009 Let me first thank Chairman Miller and Ranking Member McKeon for convening this hearing on national service and…
Resource type: News
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Transgender People Tell Their Stories
Source: Mamba Online
A groundbreaking DVD of short digital stories created by transgender and gender non-conforming people in South Africa will be released this weekend. The TRANSformations DVD explores the lives and experiences of the participants and their resilience in the face of considerable adversity. The project is a collaboration…
Resource type: News
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Elderly Emerge as a New Class of Workers -- and the Jobless
Source: The Wall Street Journal
by CLARE ANSBERRY AKRON, Ohio -- Mary Appleby, 76 years old, lost her job in January as a cashier at a courthouse cafeteria here. She is now looking for minimum-wage work. Mary Bennett, 80, began filling out applications for fast-food restaurants and convenience stores after…
Resource type: News
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Baby boomers aren't sailing into cushy retirements
Source: The Orange County Register
by JANE GLENN HAAS It wasn't supposed to end this way. For baby boomers trickling toward retirement, these were going to be the golden years. The good life earned after toiling in some version of the 20th-Century vineyards. A big percentage of boomers envisioned no…
Resource type: News
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Invest in families to keep kids in school
Source: The Carrboro Citizen
Original Source By Chris Fitzsimon Speaker Joe Hackney presided at a news conference with fellow House Democrats Tuesday to announce that the lawmakers were renewing their commitment made two years ago to improve the state’s high school graduation rate, though Hackney acknowledged that it’s not…
Resource type: News
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New Survey Finds that State Child Welfare Budgets May Face Perfect Storm
Source: Child Trends
Washington, DC -- Although child welfare spending has increased for at least a decade, several factors driven by the current recession may be converging to threaten states' capacity to serve abused and neglected children.A new Child Trends study, Federal, State, and Local Spending to Address…
Resource type: News