Policy & Data
Raising the Floor: The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Low-Wage Workers
Paper aims to examine the real value of minimum wage declines and its impact on the American workforce, particularly paying attention to rural workers.
Selecting States: Proposal Submission & Review Process
Document provides a comprehensive list of Request for Proposals (RFP) of state legislative leaders applying for an Investing in People Project (IIP) designed to formulate, refine, and implement integrated systems for workforce preparation and economic development.
Adult workers: Retraining the American Workforce
Paper focuses on the need for states to develop enhanced high-skilled job training in lieu of increasing global competition for low-wage labor.
Win Lose or Draw: Gambling with America’s Small Towns
Report analyses the impacts of gambling and lays out the implications of gambling activity for statutes and local communities.
Strategies for State-supported Microenterprise Development Systems : Practitioner’s Role
Report examines the Center for Rural Affairs Rural Enterprise Assistant Project (REAP) in its partnership with Nebraska's Office of Economic Development.
Global Squeeze on Rural America: Opportunities, Threats, and Challenges From NAFTA, GATT, and Processes of Globalization
Public Education Document; Represents the firsts synopsis of the October 1993 discussions at the Aspen Institute's Wye Woods Conference facility on the topic of Globalization process and the potential impacts on Rural America.
Understanding State Economies Through Industry Studies
Paper describes key analytical concepts that have shaped some of the most effective efforts in state economic development research and policy formulation.
Skill Assessment, Job Placement, and Training: What Can Be Learned from the Temporary Help/Staffing Industry?
Final report of project entitled the "Rural Economic and Community Development State Policy Academy."
Policy Institute 1: Snowbird, Utah
Document contains conference agenda for Investing in People: Workforce Policy Institute I hosted in Snowbird, Utah.
Workforce Development: Building Statewide Systems
Paper examines changing labor markets, declining living standards, and the need for modernization of job training programs within workforce development policy.
Southwest IAF Vision for Work
Document presents platform of Southwest IAF.
Rethinking State Development Policies and Programs
This report created to educate Governors about long-range economic development policy and the decisions they make related to new business investment and expansion of existing firms.