workforce Publications

Green Jobs Training Prepares Students for Career Success (October 2010)
Kevin Coyle and JFF's Maria Flynn authored this op-ed about opportunities for low-skilled workers in the emerging green economy. It appears in the October/Nove... read more
"Growing Their Own" Skilled Workforces: Community Health Centers Benefit from Work-Based Learning for Frontline Employees (November 2010)
Health care reform calls for unprecedented investments in the nation’s community health centers, paving the way to serve millions more Americans who are c... read more
Time to Completion: States and Systems Must Tackle the Time Dilemma (November 2010)
Here's the all-too-familiar challenge: The nation needs higher postsecondary completion rates to ensure a competitive labor market and to restore our ranki... read more
Workforce Partnership Guidance Tool (November 2010)
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions believes that high-quality workforce partnerships are among the most fundamentally sound strategies for helping l... read more
Jobs to Careers in Community-Based Care (September 2010)
A project in Oregon to improve the work of elder caregivers in community-based settings is a timely response to the convergence of several pressing factors: an ... read more
The Key to Prosperity: The Skills of the American Worker (September 2010)
Labor Day celebrates the American worker upon whom our nation builds its prosperity. In boom times, the American workforce and the economy it fueled were the en... read more
The Community College and Career Training Grant Program: Lessons Learned from the Field and Recommendations (August 2010)
In March, Congress authorized the Community College and Career Training Grant Program in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, with appropriations o... read more
Advancing the Frontline Health Care Workforce (August 2010)
Job creation is a national priority, and health care is a high-demand and expanding segment of the economy. That combination makes this a strategic moment for c... read more
Innovations in Labor Market Intelligence: Meeting the New Requirements of Regional Workforce and Economic Development (August 2010)
The nation’s economic and workforce development landscapes are changing rapidly. We can no longer define labor markets using the old geopolitical jurisdic... read more
Expanding the Mission: Community Colleges and the Functions of Workforce Intermediaries (August 2010)
The U.S. labor market has changed dramatically—a situation that is painfully obvious to the millions of people who struggle to find good jobs with family-... read more