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The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) used its Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF) grant to design, implement, and evaluate an online workforce development services platform. The new platform was designed to be a...

Outlines the key psychological concepts of behavioral economic theory and presents four examples for workforce professionals in which an understanding of behavioral economics applies to improve employer engagement and effect economic decision making.

This tool provides step-by-step guidance for workforce partnership collaboratives to collect and use qualitative data to better understand the experiences of all program stakeholders and make timely program improvements; describes how qualitative...

Presents promising practices from Milwaukee’s Tech Tern Model, a youth/industry partnership that connected 18 male high school students, most of whom were African American from low-income backgrounds, with employer mentorship and real-world...

Summarizes state laws regarding collective bargaining, wage negotiation, and the right of public workers to strike.

This tool provides step-by-step guidance for workforce partnership collaboratives to collect and use qualitative data to better understand the experiences of all program stakeholders and make timely program improvements; describes how qualitative...

Effectively engaging employers requires a multi-faceted approach, and while some strategies can be quickly and easily implemented, others take some careful planning. 

Provides findings from an implementation study of the Accelerating Opportunity Initiative (AO), drawn from responses to a survey of 444 students that measures the characteristics, perceptions, and program experiences of AO students.

Summarizes features that are common to community colleges that have successfully implemented sustainability skills programs, and provides recommendations to seven different stakeholder groups who can help support these programs.

This webinar builds on the information shared in Training and Employment Notice 06-24: Benefits of Collaboration Between the Public Workforce System, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program and the Manufacturing USA Network of...