Amy Goldstein

Rare Agreement: Obama, Romney, Ryan All Endorse Retraining For Jobless—But Are They Right?

In February 2008, six days before he would win the Wisconsin presidential primary, Barack Obama traveled to a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., for a major economic address. Janesville is a community of 63,000 on a bend in the Rock River near the Illinois line, three-fourths of the way up Interstate 90 from Chicago […]

Rare Agreement: Obama, Romney, Ryan All Endorse Retraining For Jobless—But Are They Right?

In February 2008, six days before he would win the Wisconsin presidential primary, Barack Obama traveled to a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., for a major economic address. Janesville is a community of 63,000 on a bend in the Rock River near the Illinois line, three-fourths of the way up Interstate 90 from Chicago to Madison. On the sides

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Uncovering The Effects Of Retraining: Inside The Janesville Data

This story’s analysis of the effects of job-retraining in Janesville, Wis., is the first in the United States that has examined this question using data since the recent recession made jobs harder to find.  It is patterned after a few older studies elsewhere that used similar methods to identify dislocated workers who went back to school, examine […]

Uncovering The Effects Of Retraining: Inside The Janesville Data

This story’s analysis of the effects of job-retraining in Janesville, Wis., is the first in the United States that has examined this question using data since the recent recession made jobs harder to find.  It is patterned

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