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Unlocking the Treasure Chest of Labor Market Information: Crucial Information for Job Seekers, Educators, and Employers in a Tough Economy
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Quality labor market data and analysis is critical to developing effective market-driven workforce and economic strategies in states, regions, and localities. Such information can be complex, intimidating, and overwhelming to many users, however. This issue brief offers a framework for understanding workforce information, including a summary of the different types of consumers of information and their need for comprehensive data and analysis about the labor market. It identifies the publicly available information sources that produce the data and provides suggestions on how to identify and address the gaps between user needs and the availability of reliable and timely data and analytical capacity to enable effective and informed decision-making by data consumers. Finally, it recommends ways in which states and local areas can make workforce information more readily available to consumers who must make important decisions. |
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Taking the Pulse of the New York City Economy
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This 2006 Federal Reserve Bank of New York report, Taking the Pulse of the New York City Economy, looks at a broader set of economic indicators, including alternative job measures, wage and salary earnings, and a composite index of economic activity, to create an understanding of the economic health of New York City.
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Increasing Opportunity and Reducing Poverty in
the City of New York
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The Increasing Opportunity and Reducing Poverty in the City of New York report, prepared by the New York City Commission on Economic Opportunity (CEO) for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in September 2006, concentrates on the development of a coordinated Citywide agenda for increasing economic opportunity and financial independence for New Yorkers living in poverty. The recommendations focus on various strategic investments from both the public and private sectors to effectively reduce poverty in New York City |
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New York's New Business: Redefining
Workforce Development
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The September 2004 issue of Urban Land Magazine features the article “New York's New Business: Redefining Workforce Development” by Robert Walsh, Commissioner of the Department of Small Business Services. The article concentrates on the efforts to realize the potential of workforce development and its connection to the City's economic development initiatives. |
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A Thousand Cuts
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In this February 2007 report, A Thousand Cuts, the Center for and Urban Future discusses the need to continue to build a strong workforce investment system in New York, even though the system is facing deep cuts in Federal funding.
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The Chance of a Lifetime
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The Chance of a Lifetime report, published by the Center for an Urban Future in May 2006, details both the growing problem of disconnected youth in New York City and what it will take to redirect them toward career-track employment and family-supporting incomes. The report focuses on building the skills of youth in jobs that are in demand because of industry growth and an aging workforce.
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Under One Roof: New Governance Structures
for Local Economic and Workforce Development
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Under One Roof: New Governance Structures for Local Economic and Workforce Development, published by NCEE: The National Center on Education and the Economy, is intended to provide insights for local government and decision makers considering structural realignments of agencies and organizations, and features a case study about the transformation of the New York City WIB.
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Lost in Translation
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This 2006 Center for an Urban Future report, Lost in Translation, finds that while immigrants have become a growing part of the workforce in nearly every corner of New York State, the state-run English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program are not keeping pace with demand, creating a skills gap that could hurt the state's economic competitiveness.
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A World of Opportunity
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A World of Opportunity: Understanding and Tapping the Economic Potential of Immigrant Entrepreneurs, published by the Center for an Urban Future in February 2007, documents that immigrant entrepreneurs have become an increasingly powerful economic engine for New York and other American cities. The report concludes that immigrant entrepreneurs have the potential to provide an even bigger boost to these cities in the years ahead.
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More Than a Link in the Food Chain
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The New York City Mayor's Office for Industrial and Manufacturing Business commissioned the report More than a Link: A Study of the Citywide Impact of Food Manufacturing in New York City, a study prepared by the New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN) and the Fiscal Policy Institute, that reveals the impact of food manufacturing on the Citywide economy.
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The Prospects for Information Technology Jobs
in New York's Finance Sector
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The Prospects for Information Technology Jobs in New York’s Finance Sector report is part of a joint project of the Fiscal Policy Institute and the City University of New York Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD), for the CUNY Computer Science Discipline Council. The purpose of this project was to create an ongoing dialog with IT representatives from the financial services industry to develop appropriate modifications to CUNY's undergraduate computer science major, if necessary, and to increase the placement of CUNY graduates in New York’s finance industry.
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NYC Retail Trade Sector: Labor Market Profile
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Fiscal Policy Institute was hired in February 2004 by the NYC Employment and Training Coalition to prepare NYC Retail Trade Sector: Labor Market Profile, an overview of the labor market overview and growth trends for the retail industry in New York.
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