About D4AD
Choices about education and job opportunities are among the most consequential decisions that individuals will make for their financial well-being. Yet, most people – especially low-income Americans from disadvantaged backgrounds – make these decisions with less data-driven insight than is the case when choosing a movie to watch at night. An estimated 13 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed, in many cases because they don’t know where to go to get the information they need to navigate the labor market. Opportunities are out there, but workers are simply not able to find them or to get the training needed to obtain them. This not only hurts the neediest in our society—low-income Americans from disadvantaged backgrounds—but also hurts overall economic growth as productive jobs and skill needs go unfilled.
The Data for the American Dream (D4AD) initiative aims to support innovative efforts to expand access to education and career data through partnerships that might include both public and private agencies and organizations. The goal of the D4AD initiative is to help students and jobseekers make better career decisions in a changing economy through data-driven information, and especially to help low-income, lower-skilled, underemployed, and unemployed Americans access better jobs and education opportunities.
D4aD Grantees
Colorado Workforce Development Council
Powered by a multi-agency, public-private data trust, My Colorado Journey will unite the existing fragmented ecosystem of data and allow for the creation of new datasets that connect services, programs, and education and employment opportunities.
Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget
Operating in partnership with Michigan’s Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, a regional workforce development system, and academic and research institutions, this project will focus on creating a suite of tools that will aid displace workers and unemployed or low-income individuals in making the transition to successful, sustainable employment.
New Jersey
Department of Labor
Targeted at customers of the state’s human services programs and other disadvantaged populations, New Jersey’s D4AD project will build an interactive website containing smart disclosure tools that will help jobseekers make informed decisions about training. Project partners include state agencies and organizations from the non-profit and private sectors and academia.
NEWS
Check out our blog post providing a brief summary of the jobs report released August 7, 2020 and how it relates to the D4AD initiative.
Making Data Work for Low-Income, Lower-Skilled, Unemployed, and Underemployed Individuals seeks to identify potentially successful approaches to help fulfill the transformational promise of big data in the education realm for these key populations. The accompanying one-pager distills this brief and recommendations for impacting target audiences.
@D4ADream
Great comments from panelists so far.Stackability of short-term credentials is critical for mobility & eliminating occupational segregation.D4AD is committed to being intentional about using quality data for equitably helping individuals get on better paths #EquityAndCredentials
Join us in 1 hour at 2pm ET! Join @LuminaFound, @SkillsCoalition, and @edstrategygroup for a webinar on "Short-Term Credentials and Racial Equity: Complicated Past, Promising Future." Register now and follow #EquityAndCredentials https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LbhwpzF9SpiNf7OV1nRK1Q
What a great example of inter-agency collaboration from one of our D4AD grantee states!
Partners from @the_cwdc @ColoradoLabor @CoHigherEd and @GoCCCS published Colorado’s High Quality IRAP framework to outline quality standards for the creation of Industry Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs) in Colorado. Learn more: http://ow.ly/Qw7F50AWoLC
D4AD sites are working with partners across their states to aid in recovery efforts. These partnerships help to make sure quality information is being used by those who need it. Teamwork makes the dream work!
Check out our blog post providing a brief summary of the jobs report released today and how it relates to the D4AD initiative at https://d4ad.com/news/. #JobsReport #BLSdata
Nonfarm payroll employment rises by 1.8 million in July; unemployment rate falls to 10.2% http://go.usa.gov/vrK #JobsReport #BLSdata
Check out the new interactive tool by the Brookings Workforce of the Future initiative that visually breaks down the number and dispersion of "vulnerable" jobs (jobs that pay low wages and do not provide benefits) for 380 metropolitan statistical areas, all 50 states & D.C.
What does your local labor market look like compared to others in the United States? Where are the vulnerable jobs in your city or state? See the data: https://brook.gs/30SjHz6
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