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Workforce Development

Profiles of the Restaurant Workforce and Restaurant Opportunities Center-United

This report details the dynamics and challenges of the residential construction industry and provides a profile of the Workers Defense Project, a non-profit and membership-based organization based in Austin, Texas that seeks to provide low-wage workers, particularly those in the construction industry, with resources to improve their working and living conditions.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

07.12.2013
Workforce Development

Profiles of the Residential Construction Workforce and the Workers Defense Project

This report details the dynamics and challenges of the residential construction industry and provides a profile of the Workers Defense Project, a non-profit and membership-based organization based in Austin, Texas that seeks to provide low-wage workers, particularly those in the construction industry, with resources to improve their working and living conditions.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

07.12.2013
Workforce Development

Profiles of the Direct-Care Workforce and PHI

This report provides an overview of work in the direct-care industry and profiles PHI (Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute), an organization dedicated to improving employment for direct-care workers in the U.S.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

07.12.2013
Workforce Development

Fact Sheet on Worker Cooperatives, ESOPs, and B Corporations

Learn more about the alternative business models, including worker cooperatives, ESOPs, and B corporations with this fact sheet, produced in late 2013.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

07.11.2013
Workforce Development

Fact Sheet on the Federal Minimum Wage

Learn more about the federal minimum wage with this fact sheet, produced in early 2013.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

07.11.2013
Workforce Development

Fact Sheet on Foreign-Born Workforce

The immigrant workforce contributes to the nation’s skills, knowledge, and labor across the economy with immigrant workers in every sector of the economy—from child care and home health to information technology and construction.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Of Interest

05.17.2013
Workforce Development

The Retail Trade Workforce in the United States

This resource provides an overview of retail work in the United States including information about the demographics of workers in the industry, the size of the workforce, wages and benefits, and working conditions.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

07.12.2012
Workforce Development

The Restaurant Workforce in the United States

This resource provides an overview of the restaurant workforce in the United States including information about the demographics of workers in the industry, the size of the workforce, wages and benefits, and working conditions.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

07.12.2012
Workforce Development

Profiles of the Retail Workforce and the Retail Action Project

This report illustrates the state of low-wage work in the retail industry and provides a profile of the Retail Action Project, an organization striving to improve job quality in retail.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

07.12.2012
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