Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction to Workforce Systems Chapter 2 The New Workforce Challenge: Finding the Skills to Move Up and Out of Poverty Chapter 3 Workforce Development and Welfare Policy: Explored Through an Intersectional Lens Chapter 4 Policy and Programs: Single Working Poor Mothers and Online Learning Chapter 5 Rethinking Workforce Development: Reflections from a State Commissioner of Labor Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks: Development an Agenda for Low-Wage Workers
Mary L. Gatta is Director of Workforce Policy and Research at the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University. Kevin P. McCabe served as Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner for New Jersey's Department of Labor and Workforce Development from 2002-2004.
Not Just Getting By stresses the need for workforce development
policies that not only acknowledge the many barriers to education
and job training facing low-wage workers, but that are also
fashioned to minimize or eliminate those barriers. As this book
makes clear, workforce development must be a priority for state and
federal policymakers if the United States is to remain a leader in
the global economy – and if America wants all Americans to have a
shot at economic self-sufficiency and a better life.
*Congressman George Miller, California*
After all the talk we have heard about family values, this book
builds on New Jersey's success to show a clear way that government
can actually work to value families. This book outlines how a
flexible workforce can help all Americans reach economic
self-sufficiency by training on their own terms and on their own
time.
*Representative Rush Holt, New Jersey*
For too long now, policymakers have looked at workforce development
as though all workers were the same, with the same needs and the
same problems. Not Just Getting By documents how policymakers must
step outside of this "one-size-fits-all box". The authors show that
workforce development policies that are sensitive to the needs of
all kinds of workers—including ones with family
responsibilities—will be more effective in the long run in moving
individuals toward stable employment. This book is a must read for
those interested in bringing workforce development policy into the
21st century.
*Heather Boushey, Center for Economic and Policy Research*
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