Group Materials
Program Materials
March 2019
Find the recording of the webinar, " Creating Opportunities for Opportunity Youth and Young Adults: How Grantmakers Can Capitalize on Federal Workforce Policies to Invest in Immigrants " here.
Resources
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Report
February 2019
This report illustrates the paradox between immigrant contributions to our workforce and the structural barriers that shut out thousands of Californians from economic opportunity. The brief calls for policies to ensure investments in workforce development work to support every Californian, regardless of status, to provide for themselves and their families.
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Making the Right Investments: Ensuring Workforce Development
Issue Brief
January 2019
A policy brief that considers the benefits of launching partnerships between adult education organizations and Career and Technical Education (CTE) providers.
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National Skills Coalition
Issue Brief
October 2018
This policy brief proposes a new instructional model that maintains a central focus on English acquisition while also building the critical skills and systems knowledge important for long-term integration success.
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Migration Policy Institute
Factsheet
July 2018
This factsheet examines the size and characteristics of the immigrant workforce and explores key strategies that organizations in three cities are using to support training this population.
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Urban Institute
Factsheet
July 2018
This two-page factsheet takes a close look at characteristics of the immigrant workforce, making a case for how important it is to consider immigrant workers when developing local workforce development strategies.
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Urban Institute
Presentation
April 2018
A 33-slide presentation that provides an overview of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA); examines how it serves Latinos and English Language Learners; and considers WIOA's future.
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National Skills Coalition
Presentation
March 2018
This 29-slide presentation covered how advocates can advance policies to boost immigrant workers' success, such as career pathways, sector partnerships, integrated education and training, and state data systems and workforce data tools.
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National Skills Coalition
Presentation
March 2018
A 55-slide presentation on immigrant workforce and adult education policy and funding; examples of institutions advancing such policies, and examples of levers & tools available to advance such policies.
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National Skills Coalition
Presentation
March 2018
A 24-slide presentation on apprenticeship and work-based learning (WBL), their relevance for immigrants, related federal and state level activities, and opportunities for advocates.
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National Skills Coalition
Presentation
February 2018
A 15-slide presentation on Building Skills Partnership's work in California to train workers and integrate immigrants.
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Building Skills Partnership
Report
January 2018
This article explores the reasons for earning inequalities among farmworkers. Using national data from the US Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), we detail and examine differences in earnings among farmworkers based on certain characteristics identified in prior literature.
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Center for Migration Studies of New York
Report
January 2018
This brief uses the newly released Equality of Opportunity Project data to examine the upward income mobility of students who attended MSIs compared to students who did not.
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American Council on Education
Report
March 2017
A report on the growing demand for bilingual talent in major industries in the United States. The research looks at online job posting data acquired by Burning Glass Technologies, a leading labor market analytics firm that searches 40,000 job boards daily.
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New American Economy
Data Tool
January 2017
The Low-Wage Work in California Data Explorer provides users with graphics, tables, research summaries, interactive visualizations, and downloadable data
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UC Berkeley Labor Center
Funding Recommendations
Issue Brief
November 2016
Immigrants comprise one in three California workers. This diverse pool of individuals includes those fluent in English and those with limited English proficiency; those with very little formal...
Report
This agenda lays out innovative workforce development strategies that California's policymakers can deploy to drive economic growth through equity, opportunity, and innovation.
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National Skills Coalition