Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f2HGIwg09831; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:18:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:18:58 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <v04210104b6d93df535f2@[146.186.96.31]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:102] new reports and resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 1431 Lines: 33 The following reports and notices have been drawn from the WebClipper Digest, HandsNet's weekly overview of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World Wide Web. WILL WELFARE REFORM HURT LOW-SKILLED WORKERS? - Welfare participants entering the market will increase competition for scarce jobs, which may hurt the wages and employment chances of other low-skilled workers who already have their share of economic adversity, says an Urban Institute report. http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/discussion01-01.html MAYORS TACKLE NATIONWIDE "SKILLS GAP" - The U.S. Conference of Mayors will convene a series of regional skills summits with the private sector, educators, unions, and workforce professionals, starting March 20 in New Orleans. http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/news/press_releases/documents/skillssummi ts031501.asp The Mayors' report "Examining Skill Shortages in America's Cities" can be downloaded in pdf format at: http://www.usmayors.org/seattle2000/skillsgap.pdf. ****************** Barbara Van Horn NIFL-WORKPLACE List Co-Moderator Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy Co-Director, Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University 102 Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802-3202 Phone: 814-865-5876 Fax: 814-863-6108 E-mail: BLV1@PSU.EDU "Moving adult literacy from the Margins to the Mainstream"
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