Communities and Workforce Development

by Edwin Meléndez

The emergence of more dynamic LMIs is partly a response to the growing demand for workers,which was fueled by the economic expansion of the 1990s, but it has also been greatly shaped byat least two major policy shocks in the latter half of the decade: welfare reform and therevamping of federal employment training programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)of 1998. The combined impact of these forces induced many organizations to become moreactive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880993162
• ISBN13: 9780880993166
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: W. E. Upjohn Institute
• Length: 499 Pages