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• High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development

  • December 17, 2015
  • Keystone Research Center
  • Stephen Herzenberg

  In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems of workforce development under WIOA. This process creates an unprecedented opportunity to build into each state’s plan concrete ideas for using state and local workforce […]

  Job Training & Apprenticeships Jobs

• Bringing Vitality to Mainstreet: How Immigrant Small Businesses Help Local Economies Grow

  • January 4, 2015
  • Fiscal Policy Institute
  • David Dyssegaard Kallick, and At Americas Society/Council of the Americas

  Immigrants are a little more likely to own businesses than their U.S.-born counterparts, but they are a lot more likely to own Main Street businesses such as grocery stores, restaurants, and barber shops, finds a new study released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute and Americas Society/Council of the Americas. Immigrants make up 16 percent […]

  Immigration