The Job Training Charade

Author : Gordon Lafer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801489518
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Job Training Charade written by Gordon Lafer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive critique showing that training has been a near-total failure. Examines the economic assumptions and track record of training policy, and provides a political analysis of why job training has remained so popular despite widespread evidence of its failure. [book jacket].

Author : Gordon Lafer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801439643
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Job Training Charade written by Gordon Lafer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive critique showing that training has been a near-total failure. Examines the economic assumptions and track record of training policy, and provides a political analysis of why job training has remained so popular despite widespread evidence of its failure. [book jacket].

Author : Michael Bernick
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN 13 : 0880992816
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Job Training that Gets Results written by Michael Bernick and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a strong private economy can reduce unemployment more successfully than government programmes and that job training programmes should reflect the current market. Looks at ways of building and maintaining career ladders for the working poor, the roles of welfare reform and emerging new occupations in the ITC industries, aspects of poverty reduction, and job training in a world of globalization.

Author : David B. Muhlhausen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do Federal Social Programs Work? written by David B. Muhlhausen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing an issue of burning interest to every taxpayer, a Heritage Foundation scholar brings objective analysis to bear as he responds to the important—and provocative—question posed by his book's title. Of course, the answer to that question will also help determine whether the American public should fear budget cuts to federal social programs. Readers, says author David B. Muhlhausen, can rest easy. As his book decisively demonstrates, scientifically rigorous national studies almost unanimously find that the federal government fails to solve social problems. To prove his point, Muhlhausen reports on large-scale evaluations of social programs for children, families, and workers, some advocated by Democrats, some by Republicans. But it isn't just the results that matter. It's the lesson to readers on how Americans can—and should—accurately assess government programs that cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year. At the book's core is an insistence that we move beyond anecdotal reasoning and often-partisan opinion to measure the effectiveness of social programs using objective analysis and scientific methods. At the very least, the results of such analysis will, like this book, provide a sound basis for much-needed public debate.

Author : Stanley Kurtz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439155097
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical-in-Chief written by Stanley Kurtz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Stanley Kurtz examines the politics of Barack Obama, focusing on his alleged socialist convictions, and suggesting that Obama's visions for the United States and long-term strategy are influenced by connections to radical groups and the Socialist Scholars Conferences.

Author : Patrick J. Finn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438428049
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition written by Patrick J. Finn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.

Author : Edward Cary Royce
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742564442
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Power written by Edward Cary Royce and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and Power suggests that today's poverty results from deep-rooted disparities in income, wealth, and power. The rate and severity of poverty remain high, because millions of Americans are trapped in low-wage jobs, inadequately served by government policy, excluded from mainstream policy debates, and vitimized by discrimination and social exculsion

Author : Eva Bertram
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247078
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Workfare State written by Eva Bertram and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Workfare State recounts the history of the evolving social contract for poor families from the New Deal to the present. Challenging conventional accounts, Eva Bertram argues that conservative Southern Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s led the way in developing the modern workfare state, well before Republican campaigns in the 1980s.

Author : Stephen F. Befort
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080477126X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives written by Stephen F. Befort and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets. The balance of economic and noneconomic goals is under the microscope in every sector of the economy. It is time to re-think the objectives of the employment relationship and the underlying assumptions of how that relationship operates. Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives develops a fresh, holistic framework to fundamentally reexamine U.S. workplace regulation. A new scorecard for workplace law and public policy that embraces equity and voice for employees and economic efficiency will reveals significant deficiencies in our current practices. To create one, the authors—a legal scholar and an economics and industrial relations scholar—blend their expertise to propose a comprehensive set of reforms, tackling such issues as regulatory enforcement, portable employee benefits, training programs, living wages, workplace safety and health, work-family balance, security and social safety nets, nondiscrimination, good-cause dismissal, balanced income distributions, free speech protections for employees, individual and collective workplace decision-making, and labor unions. Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives is not just another book that sketches a reform agenda. The book provides the much-needed rubric for how we think about employment policy specifically, but also economic policy more generally. It is a must-read in these most critical times.

Author : Edward Royce
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442238097
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Power written by Edward Royce and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and Power asserts that American poverty is a structural problem resulting from failings in our social system rather than individual failings of the poor. Contrary to the popular belief that poverty results from individual deficiencies—that poor people lack intelligence, determination, or skills—author Edward Royce introduces students to the very real structural issues that stack the balance of power in the United States. The book introduces four systems that contribute to inequality in the U.S.—economic, political, cultural, and structural—then discusses ten institutional problems that make life difficult for the poor and contribute to the persistence of poverty. Throughout the book, the author compares individualistic and structural approaches to poverty to assess strengths and limitations of each view. The second edition of this provocative book has been revised throughout with new statistical information, as well as analysis of the recent recession, the Obama presidency, increasing political polarization, the rise of the Tea Party and appearance of the Occupy Movement, new anti-poverty movements, and more.