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• Barriers to prisoners' reentry into the labor market and the social costs of recidivism

  - 2007-06-22

  ARE PRISONS CRIHINOGENIC? ALTHOUGH THE PRISON WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED FOR THE NOBLE purpose of rehabilitating criminal offenders, critics from its very inception worried that the cure was worse than the disease (Rothman 2005 [1971]; Garland 1993)." In modern parlance they regarded the prison as an inherently criminogenic institution, which...

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• Welfare Reform: Is it Working?

  - 2007-01-01

  More than a decade after welfare was overhauled, the rolls have plummeted, yielding some successes and a cohort of working Americans who are poor In 1996, the year the welfare reform bill was signed, Roberta Price was an unemployed single mother. She was living on public assistance, Aid...

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• Welfare reform and economic and housing capacity for low-income households, 1997-1999.

  - 2004-08-01

  In 1996, many opponents of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act PRWORA anticipated that PRWORA would generate increased hardship for low-income families. (1) Six years later, in 2002, welfare caseloads and the overall poverty rate were declining (Lichter & Crowley, 2002). In testimony before...

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• U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao to Speak at Job Training Conference

  - 2003-06-25

  WASHINGTON, June 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao will be the keynote speaker at a job training conference sponsored by the Department of Labor and the Urban Institute. In addition to Secretary Chao, Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration Emily DeRocco will...

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• Faith-Based Organizations In Five Cities Get Share Of Federal Funds For Helping People Find Jobs

  - 2002-03-19

  WASHINGTON, March 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Workforce investment agencies in five U.S. cities have directed some part of their federal funding to faith-based organizations to provide employment-related services, according to a study by the Urban Institute that was funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. "We commissioned this report to...

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• Is there a labor shortage in the information technology industry?

  - 1998-04-01

  The success of the U.S. economy in generating jobs is well known. Now, however, the country is facing a constraint on further expansion: too few well-educated workers. The most vocal concerns are coming from the computer industry. CEOs of leading companies say that the worker shortage is preventing the development...

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