Compete: Impact--2009 Accomplishments and 2010 Outlook
The Council on Competitiveness is a leadership organization comprised of CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders committed to ensuring that the United States remains the world leader. The Council has one goal: to strengthen America’s competitive advantage by acting as a catalyst for innovative public policy solutions that address America’s major competitive challenges and capitalize on its unique strengths. This report highlights the Council's 2009 accomplishments and the outlook for 2010.
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01/11/10 10:55AM
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Workforce Solutions 2009 Update
Since 2008, The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has disseminated 541 solutions through the Workforce3One innovative solutions project developed under the Community-Based Job Training Grants and High Growth Job Training Initiative. This flyer provides information on the 2009 Updates to these solutions.
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09/30/09 04:00PM
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Literature Review: Business/Faith-Based and Community Organization (FBCO) Partnerships
An in-depth literature review analyzing data regarding issues and trends of business and non-profit organization partnerships. Look at benefits of partnerships, challenges to business, and effective models of business, non-profit partnership
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01/09/09 07:30PM
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Charting Maine's Future: An Action Plan for Promoting Sustainable Prosperity and Quality Places
This report concludes that for all of its challenges the state of Maine stands within reach of a new prosperity-if it takes bold action and focuses its limited resources on a few critical investments. In that vein, the study assesses the economic and development circumstances of the northernmost New England state and offers a fiscally defensible action plan for ushering in an era of sustainable, high-quality growth. Central to the plan is an argument that the state must invest in what matters-the state's outstanding quality of place and most promising industrial clusters-and do that by streamlining government in order to free up the necessary resources. Other related resource: Coastal Maine WIRED webpage at http://www.doleta.gov/wired/regions/1g_Coastal_Maine.cfm
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09/16/08 01:37PM
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Nurses in Wyoming: Demand, Retention, and Supply
“Nurses in Wyoming: Demand, Retention, and Supply” is a three-part study completed by Wyoming’s Research and Planning Unit for the state’s Health Commission. Developed using statewide survey results, various administrative data sources, and findings analyses, "Part I – Nurses in Demand: A Statement of the Problem" presents background on Wyoming's nursing issues by using U.S. and Wyoming demographic profiles, a comparison of state health care employment and wages, hospital admissions and discharges, and analysis of sub-state economic-demographic interaction and the heath care delivery system. "Part II – Retention of Nurses in Wyoming" continues with Wyoming’s overall health care system along with a review of nurse commuting patterns, nurses leaving the market, employment (including staffing levels and employer exits), and the use of administrative data to document nurse hires and nurse exit destinations. Ending with "The NEW Report: Nurse Employment in Wyoming (NEW), First Quarter 2006 Through First Quarter 2008", Wyoming analyzes recent employment data on Total Health Care, Ambulatory Health Care Services, Hospitals, and Nursing and Residential Care Facilities. All three reports note data source, methodologies used, and sample survey instruments (where applicable).
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09/15/08 01:21PM
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Bridges to Opportunity: Federal Adult Education Programs for the 21st Century
"This report, “Bridges to Opportunity: Federal Adult Education Programs for the 21st Century,” published by the U.S. Department of Education and authored by the Interagency Adult Education Working Group, identifies ways to improve Federal education programs for American adults who need to improve their basic literacy skills. The report contains six specific recommendations intended to ensure that: (1) Federal programs serving adults will be utilized in a manner that increases the effectiveness, efficiency, and availability of such programs; and (2) literacy skills of adults will be strengthened to thereby improving their opportunities for transitions to postsecondary education and employment. The report stresses the importance of program accountability and the need for better coordination across Federal agencies.
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09/09/08 12:47PM
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2007 Washington State Labor Market and Economic Report
The 2007 Washington State Labor Market and Economic Report presents “The Year in Review” for the U.S. and state, followed by discussions on seasonality in employment (time series), unemployment and its dimensions, a discussion of the state’s aging workforce, employment projections, wages and income, and data comparisons with other states.
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09/08/08 02:25PM
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Minnesota Occupations In Demand (OID)
Minnesota's Occupations In Demand (OID) Data Tool allows users to select, view and download currently available high-demand career opportunity (occupation) data by region. The OID list for each region is the group of occupations that ranked highest as measured by local short-term demand conditions. OID data is useful for Job Seekers and Employment Counselors in job search and career planning; WIB Planners and One-Stop staff in allocating training resources more efficiently; and, for Economic Developers and others interested in developing regional labor market profiles. OID’s data are formatted into viewable data tables that can be sorted by any of the variables displayed, or downloaded by file. Occupations are classified using US Department of Labor’s Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) typology and presented with only annual salary statistics.
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09/08/08 02:16PM
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Occupational Supply and Demand System (OSDS)
The Occupational Supply and Demand System (OSDS) is a workforce planning and economic development tool that helps guide program and individual training dollar investments while also addressing critical labor inputs from firms and industries. Through OSDS, structural unemployment (i.e., the mismatch between job seeker skills against those that employers demand) can be addressed by helping to identify skill imbalances (skill shortages or surpluses) in the labor market. OSDS data are organized by Units of Analysis – groups of related occupations and training programs. Users may access data by keyword search or one of the following four ways: 1. Units of Analysis codes and titles; 2. Programs of Study and Training [Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes and titles]; 3. Occupations [Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes and titles -- including Wage Trends, Fastest Growing, and Most Openings]; and 4. Career Clusters (and related Pathways).
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09/08/08 02:13PM
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STATS Indiana
STATS Indiana provides access to thousands of data items related to geographic areas in Indiana and across the nation, and is an outstanding example of a creative partnership between state government and academia. STATS Indiana obtains thousands of data items from hundreds of data sets from dozens of federal, state and local government sources, along with some commercial or private source data and adds value to these data through easy access and functionality. STATS Indiana acknowledges the data’s direct agency source on every table, profile or map, and additionally provides essential metadata for users including frequency, specific source, geographic coverage, years of availability, and any other needed information or caveats related to data use.
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09/08/08 02:06PM
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Technology, Talent and Capital: State Bioscience Initiatives 2008
The Nation's bioscience industry continues to grow as states and regions vie to attract high-wage jobs, according to a study released by Battelle and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). The study, "Technology, Talent and Capital: State Bioscience Initiatives 2008," presents data on national, state, and metropolitan bioscience employment and growth trends during 2001 to 2006. The study also examines a series of additional key performance metrics and describes state policies and programs designed to accelerate the growth of the biosciences. The report has been produced from the most current and comparable annual data available. Other related resource: Career Voyages’ Biotechnology page http://www.careervoyages.gov/biotechnology-main.cfm
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09/05/08 08:02AM
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Priming Oregon’s Talent Pipeline: Oregon Future Workforce Needs Analysis
The Oregon Workforce Investment Board recently released a report, Priming Oregon's Talent Pipeline: Oregon Future Workforce Needs Analysis. The report is meant to guide future public and private workforce investments. According to the report, rapid change and innovation are changing the skills required of workers. Oregon is in a good competitive position relative to many other states, despite the current economic slowdown. However, Oregon's relatively low investments in the capacity of public education and training institutions, coupled with changing demographics and an aging workforce, are creating serious gaps that threaten the state’s economic base. The report identifies four major occupational groupings-production workers, engineering technicians, computer related, and engineers-which have similar foundational skills. The report recommends that workforce training investments focus on these cross-cutting skills.
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07/07/08 11:23AM
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Working Families and Economic Insecurity in the States: The Role of Job Quality and Work Supports
The National Center for Children in Poverty has released comprehensive profiles detailing indicators of family economic security in all 50 states. The report looks beyond national poverty rate statistics to get a more robust picture of how working families and their children are fairing terms of economic security. Among the indicators included in the report are child care affordability measures, health care access, unemployment assistance availability and wage and tax conditions in the state. The report highlights the importance of public work supports in helping families attain economic security. In addition to these findings, the profiles include specific policy information for each state in each of the indicator areas. This format allows users to see common policy threads associated with positive economic security indicators.
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06/20/08 09:34AM
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Building Tomorrow’s Workforce: Promoting the Education and Advancement of Hispanic Immigrant Workers in America
During the next decade, one out of every four new workers in the United States will be an immigrant from Latin America. While some of these newcomers speak English well and enter the United States with strong academic credentials and skills, most do not. Funded by the Lumina Foundation, a study was led by Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) and supported by its partners, including the Manufacturing Institute. A report of the study presents promising employer/community college partnerships that expand access to higher education and benefit low-skilled, immigrant Hispanic adults. Partnerships examined in the report met three basic criteria: results with students, employer engagement, and participation of community colleges.
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06/20/08 09:31AM
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Diplomas Count 2008: School to College: Can State P-16 Councils Ease the Transition?
Diplomas Count 2008: School to College: Can State P-16 Councils Ease the Transition?, explores the rapid growth of and challenges faced by state-level P-16 councils, which seek to better align educational institutions from preschool through postsecondary by bringing together key representatives from all levels of education, state government, business, and the community. The report also includes the latest analysis by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center of graduation rates nationwide, finding that an estimated 1.23 million students, or almost 30 percent of the class of 2008, will fail to graduate with their peers. Native American, Hispanic, and African-American students are among the groups with the lowest graduation rates.
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06/18/08 01:33PM
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Clusters and Competitiveness: A New Federal Role for Stimulating Regional Economies
The Brookings Institution has released a report that looks at industry clusters and the public sector’s role in supporting these initiatives. The authors of the report suggest that regional industry clusters represent a valuable source of needed innovation, knowledge transfer, and improved productivity. For that reason, the public sector around the world has launched numerous programs to catalyze growth producing collaboration in key industry clusters. However, the authors argue that this nation’s network of cluster initiatives remains thin and uneven. As a result, many U.S. industry clusters are not as competitive as they could be, to the detriment of the nation’s capacity to sustain well-paying jobs. The authors suggest that the federal government should move to promote cluster development and growth nationwide. In this, the federal government’s approach should be flexible, “bottom-up,” and collaboration-oriented, rather than prescriptive, “top-down,” or input-focused.
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06/18/08 12:54PM
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High Road Partnerships Report
This on line report and partnership toolkit by the AFL-CIO’s Working for America Institute examines 14 partnerships to identify elements likely to lead to success, barriers to effectiveness and tools to help these and other partnerships reach their potential. The services offered by many of the 14 high road partnerships studied here go beyond standard worker training and re-training to include plant modernization and market development help for employers, targeted assistance for minority and women job-seekers, technology-testing operations and high school equivalency, and English as a Second Language (ESL) education. Report identifies the elements that make partnerships successful, the barriers that stand in their way and the technical assistance that could expand their reach and effectiveness and provides examples.
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01/09/08 02:38PM
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Returns to Angel Investors
Entrepreneurs and investors regularly wonder what the returns are in angel investing. This report by the Kauffman Foundation provides data on investment return that has been heretofore unavailable. Information from 539 “angels” show these investors have experienced 1,137 “exits” (acquisitions or Initial Public Offerings that provided positive returns, or firm closures that led to negative returns) from their venture investments during the last two decades. The average return of angel investments is 2.6 times the investment in a 3.5 years timeframe. The report defines and examines three factors in successful angel investing Due diligence time: More hours of due diligence positively relates to greater returns. Experience: An angel investor’s expertise in the industry related to greater returns. Participation: Angel investors that interacted with their portfolio companies were more successful. Want to learn more about angel investing? Go to Building Your Entrepreneur Eco-System: A Roadmap for Sustainable Incubation
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01/09/08 02:32PM
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The Employer as the Client State-Financed Customized Training 2006
This report by the Department of Labor ETA reviews State Funded customized training programs which are examples of employer-focused public training systems. The programs are diverse with disparate origins, administrative arrangements, budgets, sources of money, and program rules. However, each one views training from the perspective of an employer and sees training as an economic development enterprise. Like other economic development efforts, the ultimate value of these programs is their contribution to the well-being of people and the economic vitality of the community. This document is a useful tool for employers to see what their states may offer (see page 3 for list of states) and for workforce professionals so they can see how other states have structured these state financed training initiatives.
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01/09/08 02:04PM
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The National Study Report Phase II of The National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development
Employers understand that the success of their businesses often reflect the adaptations they make to new trends and changes occurring both inside and outside of their organizations. A critical adaptation is the ability of employers to adjust their policies so they serve to attract and retain older workers. This discussion paper by the Center on Aging and Work at Boston College focuses on four questions: Are employers assessing how the aging of the workforce might affect their organizations? Do employers see the aging of the workforce as a vulnerability or a competitive advantage? How are employers responding? What factors could affect employer response? Article is useful for employers to read so they can understand and respond to the needs of their aging workers.
