New Paper: Reducing Poverty and Economic Stress Throughout the Business Cycle

Posted by on April 19, 2010

New Paper on Creating Jobs through Public Service Employment and Transitional Jobs Programs

Clifford M. Johnson, executive director of the YEF Institute, Amy Rynell, director of the National Transitional Jobs Network, and Melissa Young, associate director of the National Transitional Jobs Project, have published a new paper on “Publicly-Funded Jobs: An Essential Strategy for Reducing Poverty and Economic Stress Throughout the Business Cycle.”

The paper makes the case for using public-service employment (PSE) and transitional jobs (TJ) programs to boost job creation in the wake of the recession and to advance long-term workforce development goals.  With the unemployment rate near 10 percent, a new federal initiative that puts jobless individuals immediately to work must be a central strategy for restoring economic growth and responding to human needs, according to the authors.  Publicly-funded, time-limited, paid work opportunities for the unemployed offer a time-tested model for recovering jobs lost during the recession.  This paper was originally presented at an Urban Institute conference on Reducing Poverty and Economic Distress After ARRA that was held in January 2010.

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http://www.nlc.org/ASSETS/512C785B922E4F389818A3326138A3E7/IYEF_Urban_Institute_Publicly-Funded%20Jobs%202-10.pdf