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Community and Economic Development, Education and Literacy, Employment and Labor
This fact sheet, designed to accompany the report Help Wanted: Knowledge Workers Needed, provides highlights of the adult workforce literacy challenge Philadelphia is facing and the role the community can play in developing solutions.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Northeastern)-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia County-Philadelphia
Community and Economic Development, Education and Literacy, Employment and Labor
This brief provides original research demonstrating the growing gap between the workforce literacy skills of the working-age population and the needs of businesses in Philadelphia. In-depth information is available on: the definitions for prose, document, and quantitative literacy; literacy levels by demographics; comparisons between literacy levels in Philadelphia and the surrounding region; qualitative employer surveys; and projections of future literacy levels.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Northeastern)-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia County-Philadelphia
Community and Economic Development, Education and Literacy, Employment and Labor
In today's economy, strong basic skills and success in the workforce are intertwined. Employers across all industries demand a new kind of worker, and businesses can go virtually anywhere to find the right employees. In order to compete in today's global economy, Philadelphia must commit to becoming a city with a world-class, highly literate workforce. This policy brief, written in response to the publication Help Wanted: Knowledge Workers Needed, proposes strategies for uniting the full community to advance adult workforce literacy levels. Many of the strategies described in this policy brief are also applicable to areas throughout the country facing this same challenge.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Northeastern)-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia County-Philadelphia
Community and Economic Development, Education and Literacy, Employment and Labor
550,000 ADULTS. 210,000 JOBS. AN ECONOMY IN JEOPARDY. Learn how YOU can be a part of the solution. In June 2009, the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board published Help Wanted: Knowledge Workers Needed. This publication, containing original research, demonstrates the growing gap between the essential needs of our business and the fundamental skills of our people. While the data behind this report is specific to the Philadelphia region, the need to prepare our citizens with the skills, knowledge, and abilities necessary to compete in our global economy is becoming increasingly important everywhere. In twelve artistic pages (and 3 charts), learn how we can connect our residents to jobs with benefits and advancement opportunities and provide our employers with workers that fuel prosperity and productivity.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Northeastern)-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia County-Philadelphia
Community and Economic Development;Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Published in March 2007 by the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board, A Tale of Two Cities is a report portraying Philadelphia's human capital challenge as latent economic opportunity. The research highlights the economic potential that investing in the education of Philadelphia's people can yield, both for the individual and the community as a whole. The publication is intentionally designed to be readable and accessible to all Philadelphia citizens -- thought leaders, community members, public officials, and business owners. In everyday language, it identifies the connection between the undereducation of the city's workforce and Philadelphia's economic problems, high levels of unemployment and poverty, social dislocation, tax challenges, and safety concerns; concerns that all Philadelphians understand and have a stake in addressing.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Northeastern) / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia County / Philadelphia
Community and Economic Development;Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Published in March 2007 by the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board, A Tale of Two Cities is a report portraying Philadelphia's human capital challenge as latent economic opportunity. The research highlights the economic potential that investing in the education of Philadelphia's people can yield, both for the individual and the community as a whole. The publication is intentionally designed to be readable and accessible to all Philadelphia citizens -- thought leaders, community members, public officials, and business owners. In everyday language, it identifies the connection between the undereducation of the city's workforce and Philadelphia's economic problems, high levels of unemployment and poverty, social dislocation, tax challenges, and safety concerns; concerns that all Philadelphians understand and have a stake in addressing.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Northeastern) / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia County / Philadelphia
Community and Economic Development;Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Published in March 2007 by the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board, A Tale of Two Cities is a report portraying Philadelphia's human capital challenge as latent economic opportunity. The research highlights the economic potential that investing in the education of Philadelphia's people can yield, both for the individual and the community as a whole. The publication is intentionally designed to be readable and accessible to all Philadelphia citizens -- thought leaders, community members, public officials, and business owners. In everyday language, it identifies the connection between the undereducation of the city's workforce and Philadelphia's economic problems, high levels of unemployment and poverty, social dislocation, tax challenges, and safety concerns; concerns that all Philadelphians understand and have a stake in addressing.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Northeastern) / Pennsylvania / Philadelphia County / Philadelphia
Children and Youth;Education and Literacy
With support from MetLife Foundation, the Afterschool Alliance presents this compendium, containing a series of four issue briefs examining critical issues facing middle school youth, schools and communities, and the vital role afterschool programs play in addressing these issues. The four issue briefs featured in this publication address: the importance of aligning afterschool with the school day, bullying awareness and prevention, service-learning opportunities and literacy education. Each brief combines relevant statistics, comments from experts and community leaders, and examples of outstanding afterschool programs. The compendium also includes profiles of successful programs and a discussion of the MetLife Foundation Afterschool Innovator Award.
The 2011 MetLife Foundation Afterschool Innovator Award winners are:
December 1969
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Midwestern)-Illinois-Cook County-Chicago;North America-United States (Northeastern)-Pennsylvania-Adams County-Gettysburg;North America-United States (Southern)-District of Columbia-Washington;North America-United States (Southern)-Louisiana-Orleans Parish-New Orleans;North America-United States (Western)-California-Alameda County-Oakland
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