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PACE career pathways program profile: Year Up

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Monday, August 18, 2014 - 16:16
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Individual Author: 
Engstrom, Whitney
Fein, David
Gardiner, Karen
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Place Published: 
Washington, DC
Published Date: 
July 2014
Published Date (Text): 
July 2014
Publication: 
OPRE Report
Issue Number: 
2014-51
Year: 
2014
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Abstract: 

A substantial skills gap exists between the education and training of the labor force and the needs of employers in many high growth industries, including healthcare and manufacturing. This gap results in unemployment while good paying jobs go unfilled. At the same time, many low-skilled adults persist in low wage work with little opportunity for advancement.

Career pathways programs, like Year Up, are an approach to fill a vital need for skilled workers in the economy and offer low-wage workers the opportunity to obtain occupational and other skills and advance into the middle class.

This brief was produced by Abt Associates as part of the Innovative Strategies to Increase Self-Sufficiency (ISIS) project, a random assignment evaluation of nine promising career pathways programs that aim to improve employment and self-sufficiency outcomes for low-income, low-skilled individuals. (author abstract)

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