Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers

By Editors Maude Toussaint-Comeau and Bruce D. Meyer

The chapters in this book aim at offering a fresh review of the economic circumstances of disadvantaged segments of our Population, as well as providing a provocative but nuanced assessment of the effectiveness of various policies and practices geared to redress a number of issues affecting them. Examples of programs discussed include housing allowances that address the spatial mismatch between poor inner-city neighborhoods and areas with job growth, education retention programs and financial aid for older low-income students, employment and training programs for former welfare recipients, and labor market reentry programs for the hard-to-employ/ex-offenders in distressed communities. This diversity of programs reflects the variety of challenges and varying issues that vulnerable populations and communities confront; it also reflects the many creative ways of approaching these problems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880993529
• ISBN13: 9780880993524
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"