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Treading
Water in Quicksand: A Look at Poverty, Income Inadequacy
and Self-Sufficiency in Massachusetts
This paper, prepared for SkillWorks by the Workforce
Solutions Group, analyzes the income inadequacy challenges
facing a wide array of Massachusetts families at the end
of the 1990s using a variety of alternative measures.
Estimates of income inadequacies are presented for families,
geographic areas, and demographic and socioeconomic subgroups
of famlies across the state and selected sub-state areas.
Treading Water in Quicksand (File Size: 462 K) |
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Commonwealth Growing Apart: Family Income in Massachusetts
This paper, prepared for SkillWorks by the Workforce
Solutions Group, examines the changes in the levels and
growth rates of real median family incomes in a wide array
of substate areas over the 1980s an 1990s.
A Commonwealth
Growing Apart (File Size: 134 K) |
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Income
Inadequacy Redefined: A
Look at Massachusetts Families Struggling to Get By
An executive summary of two reports available
below,Treading Water in Quicksand and A Commonwealth
Growing Apart, this document highlights the key findings
and conclusions reached through this extensive research
into income inadequacies for families in Massachusetts.
Income inadequacy
Redefined (File Size: 221 K) |
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Funder
Collaboratives: A Philanthropic Strategy for Supporting
Workforce Intermediaries
Across the country, funder collaboratives pool funds for
fostering the formation and expansion of workforce intermediaries
and to advocate for policies that will sustain these new
organizations. The power of these collaboratives comes
not just from the funds they bring to programs but, even
more crucially, from the alignment of civic leadership
around a common vision for the community. This report,
by JFF's Geri Scott, was prepared for Investing in
Workforce Intermediaries , itself a collaboration
of the Annie E. Casey, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations.
Since 2004, the sponsoring foundations, working with JFF,
have led a pilot effort to create a national support infrastructure
for workforce intermediaries. In Baltimore, Boston, New
York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area, funder collaboratives
affiliated with this initiative are supporting local efforts
to change how workforce development is delivered.
Funder
Collaboratives (File Size: 320K)
Funder
Collaborators: Executive Summary (File Size: 92K)
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