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Reports: Workforce development

Workforce Development State Strategies: A 50-State Scan of Best Practices From Recent Action
Center for American Progress, October 2024
This report examines how states are strengthening their workforces through fostering registered apprenticeships, establishing career pathways, providing supportive services, addressing demand in critical industries, and other measures. more info >

Promising Practices for Integrating Positive Youth Development in the Workplace
Child Trends, August 2024, 9 pp.
This series of three case studies aims to give workforce development practitioners an understanding of specific supervision, professional development, and worker voice practices that are currently being implemented by employers that align with positive youth development practices. more info >

North Dakota Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five: 2023 Needs Assessment Final Report
North Dakota Health and Human Services, June 2023, 26 pp.
This needs assessment built on lessons learned from North Dakota’s continued efforts to strengthen its early childhood sector. Participants in a 2023 survey of North Dakota Head Start agency staff said their top priority was support for the expansion of and access to high-quality workforce and career development opportunities for staff. more info >

The Connection Between Unpredictable Work Schedules and Meeting Basic Household Needs
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 2021, 6 pp.
Examines how the lack of a stable and predictable work schedule can lead to income volatility and contribute to a host of other challenges for low-income individuals and households. more info >

North Dakota Economic Development Strategic Plan: 2017-2025
North Dakota Economic Development Foundation, October 2018, 6 pp.
This is a strategic plan aimed at increasing economic growth in North Dakota. It provides an economic assessment of the state and examines individual business sectors and industries. more info >

The Rising Cost of Not Going to College
Pew Research Center, February 2014, 65 pp.
Presents results from a survey and study comparing college graduates to those with less education. The study found that young college graduates are outperforming their peers with less education on a number of economic and career attainment measures. more info >

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Georgetown Public Policy Institute Center on Education and the Workforce
The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is an independent, nonprofit research and policy institute affiliated with the Georgetown Public Policy Institute that studies the link between education, career qualifications, and workforce demands. more info >

Jobs for the Future
Research on the educational and economic advancement of youth and adults. more info >