| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 227 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Maude Toussaint-Comeau and Bruce Meyer -- Bringing together policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to discuss strategies for improving economic mobility / Maude Toussaint-Comeau -- Past trends and projections in wages, work, and occupations in the United States / David Autor -- The earned income tax credit, welfare reform, and the employment of low-skilled single mothers / Hilary Hoynes -- Reflections on economic mobility and policy / Bruce D. Meyer -- Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs : lessons from research on welfare training programs and two promising community college strategies / Lashawn Richburg-Hayes -- Financial aid and older workers : supporting the nontraditional student / Bridget Terry Long -- Can residential mobility programs improve human capital? Comparing social mechanisms in two different programs / James Rosenbaum -- What might improve the employment and advancement prospects of the poor? / Harry J. Holzer -- What we know about the impacts of workforce investment programs / Burt S. Barnow and Jeffrey A. Smith -- Correctional programs in the age of mass incarceration : what do we know about "what works" / John H. Tyler and Jillian Berk -- Comparing apples to oranges when evaluating community-based programs and services / Robert LaLonde. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Housing subsidies -- United States.
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Housing subsidies. |
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United States. |
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Occupational retraining -- United States.
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Occupational retraining. |
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Migration, Internal -- United States.
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Migration, Internal. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Meyer, Bruce D.
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Toussaint-Comeau, Maude.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9780880994460 |
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0880994460 |
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9780880993524 paperback alkaline paper |
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0880993529 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780880993531 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0880993537 hardcover alkaline paper |
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