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December 25, 2006

Workforce Investment Act: Employers Found One-Stop Centers Useful in Hiring Low-Skilled Workers; Performance Information Could Help Gauge Employer Involvement

Regardless of size, employers completing our survey hired a small percentage of their employees through one-stops, and two-thirds of those they hired were low-skilled. About 80 employers who could provide estimates reported hiring about 9 percent of their new employees through the one-stops, roughly 1,300 of their 14,500 hires in 2005. They also reported that about two-thirds of those hired were low-skilled workers, in part because they thought the labor available from the one-stop centers was mostly low-skilled. Employers told us they would hire more job seekers from the one-stop labor pools if they had the skills for which they were looking.

Posted by Gary Holden at December 25, 2006 3:48 AM