Websites, links, reports, and articles pertaining to adult education and literacy students in the workplace, 21st century workforce skills, and more.
General
- Literacy Fact Sheet: Literacy and the Work Place, Oklahoma Literacy Resource Office
Websites
These national links lead to national U.S. information about labor and the economy.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Monthly Unemployment Reports
- Business Data and Statistics
- Center for Economics and Policy Studies: Weldon Cooper Center. This page includes many national sites.
- Economics and Statistics Administration
- Job Hunt: State Employment Offices
- Jobs for the Future: Education for Economic Opportunity
- National Association of Workforce Boards
- O*Net Resource Center: Occupational Information
- United States Department of Labor
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Vocational Information Center
Skills for Today’s Workforce
- 2005 Skills Gap Report: A Survey of the American Manufacturing Workforce
- Accenture Study Finds U.S. Workers Under Pressure to Improve Skills, But Need More Support From Employers, November, 2011
- A variety of useful links from the Vocational Information Center
- Executives Say the 21st Century Requires More Skilled Workers, 2010, Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Why Offer Workplace Literacy Classes? English Skills Learning Center
- Workplace Literacy Best Practice Guidelines: Penn State College of Education
Business, Economics, and Workforce Trends
- Business and Economics Online (BE Online)
- Business Results Through Essential Skills and Literacy, PDF Document, 2010, National Adult Literacy Database, Canada
- Economic Policy Institute
- U.S. Department of Labor
Report/Article
Reports
- Adult Literacy and Poverty Alleviation: From Workforce Investment to Community Organizing, 2007
- America’s Choice: High Skills or Low Wages!, The Report of The Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, 1990
- A Portrait of Low Income Young Adults in Education, June, 2010
- A Profile of the Low Wage Immigrant Worker, Urban Institute, 2003
- Factory Jobs Return, But Employers Find Skills Shortage, 2010, New York Times
- Learning a Living: A Blueprint for High Performance: A SCANS Report for America 2000
- New Factors Compound the Growing Skills Shortage, February, 2010
- Quantitative Literacy and the Likelihood of Employment Among Young Adults in the United States, Francisco L. Rivera-Artiz, 1992
- Reach Higher, America: Overcoming Crisis in the U.S. Workforce, 2008, Report of the National Commission on Adult Literacy
- STEM Sector Employer Skills Survey Report: PDF doc, The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, January, 2011
- Tough Choices or Tough Times, The Report from the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, 2007
United Kingdom
- Adult Learning in the Workplace, 2008, Teaching and Learning Research Briefing, UK
- Adult Basic Skills in the Workplace: Southwest Observatory, UK
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