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November 30, 2011
Building America’s job skills with effective workforce programs: A training strategy to raise wages and increase work opportunities
Amid the Great Recession and rapid technological changes, both workers with less education and workers who have been displaced from long-tenured jobs face chal…
Policy Proposals
November 30, 2011
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more-effective education and workforce development systems in the States
Less educated workers often experience prolonged periods of unemployment and stagnating wages because they lack the skills necessary to compete in a global eco…
Policy Proposals
November 30, 2011
Policies to reduce high-tenured displaced workers’ earnings losses through retraining
After being displaced from long-tenured jobs, workers often experience persistent, significant earnings losses. New research suggests that retraining in certai…
Posts
November 4, 2011
Unemployment and earnings losses: The long-term impacts of the Great Recession on American workers
The Hamilton Project explores the experiences of workers who lost their jobs during the height of the Great Recession and finds that even those workers who hav…
Posts
October 7, 2011
What is happening to America’s children? A look at the widening opportunity gap for today’s youth
Resources available to children can have long-term effects on their quality of life. The Project examines the family earnings devoted to the typical American c…
Papers
September 27, 2011
Improving student outcomes: Restoring America’s education potential
For decades, education has boosted U.S. productivity and earnings, forged a path out of poverty for many families, helped disadvantaged students narrow the lea…
Policy Proposals
September 27, 2011
The power and pitfalls of education incentives
Recent incentive programs demonstrate that well-designed rewards to students can improve student achievement at relatively low costs. Bradley M. Allan and Rola…
Policy Proposals
September 27, 2011
Organizing schools to improve student achievement: Start times, grade configurations, and teacher assignments
While education reform is often focused on dramatic changes, Brian A. Jacob and Jonah E. Rockoff suggest that implementing managerial reforms and making sure t…