Employment Section
Employment Picture
Promoting policies that improve economic outcomes for low-income working adults by enabling them to improve their skills and fill the job needs of employers in the region.
Federal & State Advocacy
Efforts to increase opportunities for low-income, low-skilled adults to acquire the skills needed to advance to better jobs More...


Shifting Gears
New Web site is launched to help states increase the number of low-income working adults who have the skills and credentials they need to compete for 21st Century jobs. More...


Making the Case
Making the Case for investing in low-income, low-skilled adult workers. More...


Transitional Jobs
Can subsidized jobs and intensive services help ex-prisoners make it in the job market? More...
Latest News

The Shifting Gears Approach to Systems Change
This new report provides an overview of the Shifting Gears approach to strengthening state postsecondary, adult basic education, and skills-development systems in the Great Lakes region.
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Strengthening State Policies for Working Families
New report released by The Working Poor Families Project
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Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration Project
An Evaluation of Employment Programs for Former Prisoners
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The Future of Middle-Skill Jobs
The Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution hosted an event and released a policy brief analyzing the demand for middle-skill jobs and their potential for helping disadvantaged workers move up the income ladder.
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National Nonprofits Call on Governors and State Legislators to Target Recovery Act Investments to those Most in Need
The Joyce-funded Working Poor Families Project developed a set of Principles for State Implementation of federal Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding that has been endorsed by 20 prominent advocacy and research groups.
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