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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

States and Job Training Initiatives

Tracking the recession: States push job training, By Christine Vestal, July 3, 2009, Stateline.org: “Everyone agrees the way out of this recession is jobs. But even as the recession begins to lift and stimulus projects generate jobs, many unemployed workers will have few prospects because their skills won’t match new openings.  That’s where state workforce agencies come in…”