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Community Colleges as Labor Market Intermediaries: Building Career Ladders for Low Wage Workers.
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Fitzgerald, Joan – 2000
This paper addresses the role community colleges can play in moving the working poor toward economic independence. Since Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) was enacted in 1996, there have been many new job openings in the country. But, employment and earnings prospects for job seekers leaving the welfare system are dismal. TANF clients…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged