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Friday Link Round-Up

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Here are your links for the week. Enjoy!

• House Republicans Eliminate Job Training Funding (Again!)--Long, but useful article on how the House is attempting to cut $2.2 billion from WIA and Wagner-Peyer under the guise of shifting from a program to a fiscal year. 

• Best Places for One Stops--There's an interesting discussion happening in the NAWDP LinkedIn group on the best places for locating One Stops and ideas about virtual One Stops. You have to join the group to view it, but it's worth joining anyway. 

• Interviewing Applicants with Disabilities--Brief tips and resource links to share with employers. 

• DOLETA/ETA Region 1 Sponsoring Youth Conference in November--The emphasis is on collaborative partnerships and work/learn opportunities for youth. 

• 3 Types of Networks You Need--from the Harvard Business Review. 

• The Atomic Method of Creating a PowerPoint Presentation--some good, simple advice on how to prepare your next PowerPoint presentation. 

• 6 Most Violated Resume-Writing Rules--You are not the exception to the rule. . . 

A Job's Bill for the College Educated

According to Inside Higher Ed, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is a jobs bill for the college-educated, based on an analysis by Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce,

The study finds that 54 percent of the 3.7 million jobs that the White House Council for Economic Advisors and the Office of the Vice President estimate will be created or saved by the $787 billion stimulus package will require at least a postsecondary certificate, with a full 37 percent of the jobs requiring an associate degree or greater.

Even many of the jobs that do not require a degree, however, may compel would-be workers to return to college or otherwise get more training to be eligible to fill them, the Georgetown center's analysis shows. Forty-six percent of the positions that the center defines as "non-college" (meaning that they do not require a degree of some kind) will require employer-provided classroom training of anywhere from a month to more than four years; a third will require at least six months of informal on-the-job training; and at least a quarter will require some kind of apprenticeship -- programs that are frequently offered by community colleges and for-profit institutions of higher education.

Considering the number of high-skill workers who are now taking on low-skill jobs, forcing low-skill and younger workers out of the job market, this finding is a good thing. However, there's no guarantee that even highly-skilled workers have what it takes for many of the jobs that will be created, particularly green jobs. There will still be a need for workers of all stripes to upgrade or diversify their skill base to access the jobs saved or created by the ARRA.

The Impact of the Stimulus on New Jersey

The White House has put out a 102-page "fact sheet (PDF) that details the economic impact of the proposed stimulus package on every state.  Here's New Jersey's share:

• Creating or saving 106,000 jobs over the next two years. Jobs will be created in a range of industries from clean energy to healthcare. Over 90% of jobs will be in the private sector. 

• Providing a making work pay tax cut of up to $1,000 for 3,150,000 workers and their families.

• Making 77,000 families eligible for a new American Opportunity tax credit to improve the affordability of college.

• Offering an additional $100 per month in unemployment benefits to 731,000 workers in NJ who have lost their jobs in this recession, and providing extended unemployment benefits to an additional 148,000 laid off workers. 

• Providing funding sufficient to modernize at least 205 schools in New Jersey so our children have the labs, classrooms and libraries they need to compete in the 21st century economy.