Government Social Research
A new approach
to low-wage workers and employers: launching the work advancement and support
center demonstration.- New York: MDRC, 2006 - Manpower Development Research
Corporation (MDRC)'s Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) demonstration
was created to identify effective strategies to enable low-wage workers
and reemployed dislocated workers (those who, because of industry restructuring,
now work in significantly lower-paying jobs than they previously did) to
stabilize their employment, find better-paying jobs, and prepare for positions
that require higher skills - all the while assisting employers in the process.
This report describes planning and early implementation strategies undertaken
between October 2004 and January 2005 at the first two sites to join the
demonstration.