Does Training for the Disadvantaged Work?
Does Training for the Disadvantaged Work?

Author: Larry L. Orr

Publisher: The Urban Insitute

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780877666479

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The study is the first evaluation of a major ongoing national program that uses the classical experimental design of random assignment, measuring "what would have happened" by comparing people who entered Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs with those who didn't. After background information on JTPA, chapters look at benefit-cost analyses; enrollment; program impacts on target groups; impacts on the earnings of subgroups; and policy implications of the findings. Distributed by University Press of America. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Putting Poor People to Work
Putting Poor People to Work

Author: Kathleen M. Shaw

Publisher:

Published: 2006-08-17

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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"Using comprehensive interviews with government officials and sophisticated data from six states over a four-year period, Putting Poor People to Work shows how recent changes in public policy have reduced the quantity and quality of education and training available to adults to low incomes. The authors analyze how two policies encouraging work - the federal welfare reform law of 1996 and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 - have made moving people off of public assistance as soon as possible a government priority, with little regard to their long-term career prospects. Putting Poor People to Work shows that since the passage of these "work-first" laws, not only are fewer low-income individuals pursuing postsecondary education, but when they do, they are increasingly directed toward the most ineffective, short-term forms of training, rather than higher-quality college-level education. Moreover, the schools most able and ready to serve poor adults - the community colleges - are deterred by these policies from doing so."--BOOK JACKET.

Multiple Employment Training Programs
Multiple Employment Training Programs

Author: DIANE Publishing Company

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1995-10

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780788122217

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Addresses concerns about the efficiency and effectiveness of the federal employment training system. Provides information on similar programs that target four groups - the economically disadvantaged, dislocated workers, older workers, and youth. Compares key program characteristics, including goals, clients, services, service delivery approaches, and federal funding mechanisms. Tables.

Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform

Author: Jeffrey T. Grogger

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2005-10-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780674018914

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In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.