Staff:
Whitney Smith
Monique Etienne
Employment
Promoting policies that improve economic outcomes for low-income working adults by enabling them to improve their skills and fill the job needs of employers in the region.
Federal & State Advocacy
Efforts to increase opportunities for low-income, low-skilled adults to acquire the skills needed to advance to better jobs
Shifting Gears
New Web site is launched to help states increase the number of low-income working adults who have the skills and credentials they need to compete for 21st Century jobs.
Transitional Jobs
Can subsidized jobs and intensive services help ex-prisoners make it in the job market?
Latest News
Shifting Gears E-Newsletter
State Updates and Policy Insights on Improving Workforce Education and Training.
Joyce Funded Report: 'Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers'
Investigative report of low-wage worker abuse in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.
The Shifting Gears Approach to Systems Change
This new report provides an overview of the Shifting Gears approach to strengthening state postsecondary, adult basic education, and skills-development systems in the Great Lakes region.
Strengthening State Policies for Working Families
New report released by The Working Poor Families Project
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