Replacement demand in a global economy / Richard B. Freeman -- An overview of U.S. workforce development policy / Burt S. Barnow and Demetra S. Nightingale -- Career-focused education and training for youth / Robert I. Lerman -- Higher education : policies generating the 21st century workforce /...

Provides information on the early design, operations, and implementation of the welfare-to-work grants program, finding a special emphasis on supported employment and increased attention to job retention in some programs. Available in HTML format at ttp://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/wtw-imp00/index.htm.

Discusses implementation, structure, and operations of WtW grant-funded programs in 11 study sites as they existed in mid-2000. Finds that the grant program has encouraged the development of innovative strategies at the community level, that local programs use a wide variety of tactics to...

Examines local WtW evaluation sites as the end of the grant period nears. Found that administrators were quite positive about the program, saying that it improved interaction between WIA and TANF agencies, increased local program capacity to serve welfare recipients and noncustodial parents in...