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Getting Ahead - Staying Ahead: Helping America's Workforce Succeed in the 21st Century

Findings from the American Worker and American Employer Surveys

Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018

Talent Pressures and the Aging Workforce: Responsive Action Steps for the Manufacturing Sector

Report Offers Recommendations to Improve Indiana’s Adult Education and Workforce Training Effort (PDF)

2009 Employer Survey Results

Return on Investment Analysis of a Selected Set of Workforce System Programs in Indiana

Aging Implications: A Wake-Up Call

Please view our recent release of "Indiana's Adult Education and Workforce Skills Performance Report: Preparing Adults for a Brighter Future." February 2008

"Reach Higher, America Overcoming Crisis In The U.S. Workforce"

"Secular Trends in Mortality From Common Cancers in the United States by Educational Attainment, 1993–2001" July 2008

"Public Health Workforce Shortages Impreil Nation's Health" Health System Change. April 2008

America's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs-Education and Training Requirements in the Next Decade and Beyond" The Workforce Alliance. November 2007

Workplace Flexibility: Employers Respond to the Changing Workforce," Institute for a Competitve Workforce. Winter 2008

Full Report “A Demand Side Strategy to Meet Indiana’s Workforce Basic Skills Challenge” , Indiana Chamber of Commerce, January 2005

The Demand for Soft Skills: Key Skills for Indiana's Growing Occupations through 2014, InContext, September 2007

Working Hard, Falling Short, America’s Working Families and the Pursuit of Economic Security”, October 2004, The Working Poor Families Project

Employer Investment in Workplace Literacy Programs, The New Zealand Centre for Workforce Literacy Development, January 2005

Profiting from Literacy: Creating a Sustainable Workplace Literacy Program, Conference Board of Canada, December 2005, 28 pages

Wising Up: How Government Can Partner with Business to Increase Skills and Advance Low Wage Workers, Center for Law and Social Policy, April 2006

Are They Really Ready To Work? The Conference Board, 2006

Tough Choices OR Tough Times, The Report of the New Commission on Skills of the American Workforce, National Center on Education and the Economy, 2006

Turning Skills Into Profit: Economic Benefits of Workplace Education Programs

“America’s Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation’s Future,” Educational Testing Service, February 2007.
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Mounting Pressures Facing the U.S. Workforce and the Increasing Need for Adult Education and Literacy, National Commission on Adult Literacy, May, 2007, 67 pages

Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Effectiveness – a new study released jointly by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for American Progress finds that this country is failing to prepare students to compete in the knowledge-based workforce of the twenty-first century, 2007

Indiana Immigration and Workforce Patterns, Sagamore Institute for Policy Research, June 2007, 47 pages

"2006 Workforce Training Results", Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, 99 pages

"Evidence about the Effectiveness of Public Training Programs for Incumbent Workers", Upjohn Institute Employment Research Journal, April 2007

 

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