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Title: Improving the Odds : Increasing the Effectiveness of Publicly Funded Training
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 087766689X
ISBN 13: 9780877666899
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Weight: 1.003 pounds

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Some of the nation's leading experts on publicly funded training examine government efforts to help disadvantaged youth and adults, welfare recipients and dislocated workers. The authors analyze the economic and social context for more than three decades of government-assisted training programs and highlight some of the critical lessons learned. They conclude that longer-term programs focussing on skills development are more likely to make a significant difference in participants' lives than programs that emphasize moving people quickly into jobs. Contributors to the book offer a range of suggestions for improvement of training programs that are particularly relevant to current programs such as the recently enacted Workforce Investment Act.

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Burt S. Barnow is interim associate director for research and principal research scientist at the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Barnow has over 25 years of experience as an economist and manager of research projects in the fields of labor economics, employment and training programs, and welfare programs.

Christopher T. King is director of the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources and a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

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