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Reauthorizing a Federal Job Training Program – Workforce
Investment Act
June 2003
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Federal Government
White House
Fact
Sheet: President Bush Takes Action to Help Unemployed Americans
Get Back to Work Quickly
Department of Labor – Employment and Training Administration
2002-05:One-Stop Innovations: Leading Change Under the WIA One-Stop
System
The purpose of this study is to identify, document widely disseminate
- via the Internet and other appropriate mechanisms - success stories
and promising practices of One-Stop Career center across the country
operating under the Workforce Investment Act.
General Accounting Office
Testimony
on Workforce Investment Act: Exemplary one-stops devised strategies
to strengthen services, but challenges remain for reauthorization
OLDER
WORKERS Employment Assistance Focuses on Subsidized Jobs and Job
Search, but Revised Performance Measures Could Improve Access to
Other Services Highlights of GAO-03-350, a report to the Ranking
Minority Member, Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, Committee
on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives
Congressional Committees
Committee on Ways and Means
Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao Testimony
Before the Committee on Ways and Means U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. March 12, 2003
Testimony
of Emily Stover DeRocco Assistant Secretary of Labor Before
the Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on 21st
Century Competitiveness U.S. House of Representatives. March 11,
2003 March 11, 2003
Committee on Education and the Workforce Testimony
of Elaine L. Chao Secretary of Labor Before the Committee on
Education and the Workforce U.S. House of Representatives February
12, 2003
Joint Economic Committee
Testimony
of Mason Bishop Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment
and Training before the Joint Economic Committee March 7, 2003
Deputy Secretary of Labor D. Cameron Findlay Testimony
Before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
United States Senate Washington, D.C. March 6, 2003
Congressional Budget Office
An
Analysis of the President’s Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal
Year 2004 (March 2003)
Nongovernment Organizations - Reauthorizing
a Federal Job Training Program - Personal Re-Employment Accounts
– Reports
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Issues
Raised by President's Proposed Personal Reemployment Accounts
by Jessica Goldberg and Wendell Primus
Economic Policy Institute
Testimony
Of Dr. Lawrence Mishel President Economic Policy Institute Before
The Education and the Workforce Committee U.S House of Representatives
February 12, 2003
National Bureau of Economic Research
Black, Dan, Jeffrey Smith, Mark Berger, and Brett Noel. 2002. “Is
the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services
Themselves? Experimental Evidence from the UI System.”
NBER Working Paper No. #8825. (requires subscription)
National Employment Law Project
Crisis
of Long-Term Unemployment is Far From Over Now Reaching Most Segments
of the Labor Market By National Employment Law Project
Unemployment
Insurance Federal Material What the Research Says About Personal
Reemployment Accounts -- Key Components of the Proposal Fail the
Long-Term Unemployed (February, 2003) by National Employment
Project
W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Cost-Effectiveness
of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses, Christopher J. O'Leary, Paul
Decker, and Stephen A. Wandner (WP03-51), 2003. The authors show
that targeting bonus offers to UI claimants with profiling models
- similar to those in state Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services
(WPRS) systems - can improve their cost effectiveness. This is an
update of WP98-51.
2003-02:Profiling
UI Claimants to Allocate Reemployment Services: Evidence and Recommendations
for States
This report develops and applies a state of the art methodology
for constructing or modifying statistical profiling models for the
allocation of reemployment services that states can apply to their
own data. This report also provides substantive guidance on model
development and modification to states based on our analysis of
UI data form the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
2002-09:Evaluation
of the Significant Improvement Demonstration Grants for the Provision
of Reemployment Services for UI Claimants
Early reviews of the WPRS systems suggested ways to improve states'
systems, such as updating profiling models more often, intensifying
services, and better coordination among UI, Employment Services
(ES), and Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs. This final report
describes findings from data collection activities conducted during
2000 and 2001.
National Public Radio
NPR's
Lynn Neary talks with Wendell Primus, Director of Income Security
at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, about the president's
proposal for $3,000 un-employment accounts. (Requires Real Audio)
US Conference of Mayors
Administration's
Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization Proposal Released
By Josie Hathway and Shannon Holmes (March 17, 2003)
Mayors
Seek Clarification of Administration's Workforce Investment Act
Proposal
Local Authority and Funds at Risk By Josie Hathway (February
17, 2003)
Workforce Alliance
Analysis
of Bush Administration’s Reauthorization Proposal for the
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