Browsing HKS Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy by Issue Date

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    • Identifying Worker Displacement Risk 

      Chukwulebe, Catherine; Medeiros, Rodrigo (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2021)
      As technology and automation increase economic disruption, supporting workers prior to permanent job displacement is becoming a larger priority for the workforce development ecosystem. We propose a new displacement risk ...

    • Credential Quality in Career and Technical Education 

      Hong, Ashley; Etemadi, Ashley; Hilliard, Ariayne (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2021)
      The education-to-employment landscape of college and career pathways is complex and varies from state to state. This report investigates one of three new program quality indicators introduced under the Strengthening Career ...

    • Working to Learn: Despite a growing set of innovators, America struggles to connect education and career 

      Fuller, Joseph; Lipson, Rachel; Encinas, Jorge; Forshaw, Tessa; Gable, Alexis; Schramm, J.B. (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2021-04)
      In the wake of COVID-19 and growing inequality, America needs more pathways that bridge education and career. New research from the Project on Workforce at Harvard draws on data from New Profit's Postsecondary Initiative ...

    • Online Skills Platforms: Ideas for Product Scale and Reach 

      Henderson, Jonathan; Banavara Nagaraja, Nakul (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2021-07)
      Nearly 1 in 3 American workers lack foundational digital skills. We identify opportunities and drawbacks of different scaling strategies for online resource and learning platforms and offer recommendations for connecting ...

    • COVID-19 and the Changing Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce 

      Taube, Stephanie; Lipson, Rachel (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2021-09)
      The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented uncertainties in the Massachusetts healthcare workforce. In this white paper, we revisit the spring and summer of 2020 to identify and evaluate the changes, ...

    • Aligning College and Career: Expanding Citywide Pathways for Boston Youth 

      Farmer, Alexis; Lyle, Stephen; Shimano, Melanie (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2021-11)
      How can we improve access to equitable opportunities to college and career for Boston’s youth? We conduct a feasibility study for a universal, citywide college- and career-readiness strategy in the City of Boston. ...

    • Credentials in Secondary CTE Programs 

      Hong, Ashley; Etemadi, Ashley; Hilliard, Ariayne (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2021-11)
      States are using different methodologies and strategies to measure postsecondary credentials in CTE. This report provides three case studies from states that elected to report on Perkins V’s 5S1 program quality indicator. ...

    • Workforce data in action 

      Sanchez, Michael; Seibel, Sherry (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022)
      The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is responsible for policy recommendations, partitioning government funds to grant awardees, and overseeing the wellbeing of our nation’s workers. It utilizes government research ...

    • Normalizing alternative pathways to young, black, & bright futures 

      Ismail, Selma; Waysome, Kayla (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022-08)
      Summer Fellows with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund provide recommendations for the development of the National Black Talent Bank. They research how the Talent Bank can become a leading initiative in serving Black youth ...

    • Building the U.S. infrastructure workforce 

      Budler, Tanya; Stark, Sarah (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022-08)
      Summer Fellows with the U.S. Department of Transportation review strategies for growing and diversifying the infrastructure workforce. This report aims to provide tools and examples for construction workforce advocates ...

    • What counts in socioeconomic mobility measurement? 

      Barnett, Tyler; Guadarrama, Anna; Paolillo, Julia; Streim, Hisa (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022-08)
      Summer Fellows with the Strada Education Network aim to contribute to the dialogue about measuring the value of post-secondary education. This report builds upon existing research and calculations to offer recommendations ...

    • Beyond the box: Equal access to postsecondary education 

      Lubben, Ann; Zhou, Jenny (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022-08)
      Summer Fellows with the U.S. Department of Education aim to reimagine guidance for institutions and organizations serving formerly incarcerated students. They incorporate new research, practice, and lived experiences from ...

    • Promising practices to close equity gaps in career and technical education 

      Mckittrick, Kerry; Nguyen, Kenny (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022-08)
      Summer Fellows with the U.S. Department of Education present the findings of an analysis of promising state strategies to advance equity in secondary career and technical education by examining state and territory Perkins ...

    • Ours to solve together 

      Boyd, Jacob; Moreno, Claudia (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022-08)
      Summer Fellows with the U.S. Department of Commerce aim to clarify how regional workforce entities and employers can better work together. They highlight learnings for employer engagement from the Economic Development ...

    • Scaling work-based learning 

      Malhotra, Priya; Michaels, Katherine; Stephens, Vance (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022-08)
      Summer Fellows with the City of Boston provide a landscape analysis of Boston’s youth employment system. Based on engagement with key stakeholders, they make recommendations to build upon existing resources to create more ...

    • Building the new high road: Immigrants and workforce development 

      Dolan, Mark; Epstein, Alexandra; Lipson, Rachel; Winiski, Emma (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022-09)
      Immigrants are critical to the U.S. workforce, but there has been limited focus on what enables them to thrive in the economy. This report draws on data from 131 applicants to WES Mariam Assefa Fund’s open grant competition ...

    • The Options Multiplier: Decoding the CareerWise Youth Apprentice Journey 

      Fuller, Joseph; Lipson, Rachel; Mallah, Farah; Pendse, Girish; Snyder, Rachel (Project on Workforce at Harvard, 2022-11)
      The Options Multiplier: Decoding the CareerWise Youth Apprentice Journey, a new white paper from Harvard's Project on Workforce, uses a novel dataset from CareerWise Colorado, one of the U.S.'s most widely cited youth ...

    • Navigating Public Job Training 

      Deming, David; Gable, Alexis; Lipson, Rachel; Zvaigzne, Arkadijs (Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, 2023-03)
      This report describes and analyzes the more than 75,000 “Eligible Training Provider” (ETP) programs in the United States. ETP programs are job training programs deemed eligible for funding under America’s primary federal ...

    • Delivering on the Degree: The College-to-Jobs Playbook 

      Deming, David; Fuller, Joseph; Lipson, Rachel; Mckittrick, Kerry; Epstein, Alexandra; Catalfamo, Emma (Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, 2023-04)
      In this playbook, we provide a framework to help college better deliver on the American Dream. We create a coherent, comprehensive taxonomy of the landscape of college-to-jobs programs and policies through a review of the ...

    • The Workforce Almanac: System-Level View of U.S. Workforce Training Providers 

      Gable, Alexis; Forshaw, Tessa; Lipson, Rachel; Gazzaneo, Nathalie (Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, 2023-11)
      The future of work increasingly requires workers of all education levels to reskill and upskill. As the rate of emerging technologies integrating into work rises, so do the costs to people who do not update their skills. ...