Career Information
Resources
“Thompson M-TEC provides customizable and flexible education and business training, career development, certification testing and assessments to meet the needs of adult students and the business community.”
www.mtec.org
www.mtec.org
Occupational Outlook Handbook
“The OOH can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.”
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/
United States Department of Labor
“To foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.”
https://www.doleta.gov/business/projections/Allstates.cfm
https://www.doleta.gov/business/projections/Allstates.cfm
Michigan Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives
“The Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives is the official source for high quality demographic and labor market information for the state of Michigan and its regions. We administer the state’s federal-state cooperative programs with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau and produce high-quality information and analysis through grants from the U.S. Department of Labor and from partner agencies in the state of Michigan. We provide our national, state, and local partners and customers with accurate, objective, reliable, timely, accessible, and transparent information and insights.”
http://milmi.org/
http://milmi.org/
"O* NET is your tool for career exploration and job analysis!
O*NET OnLine has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, researchers, and more!"
http://www.onetonline.org/
O*NET OnLine has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, researchers, and more!"
http://www.onetonline.org/
Articles
“This article documents differences in the earnings and employment patterns of U.S. adults with different levels of education. It also compares health-related behaviors, reliance on public assistance programs, civic participation, and indicators of the well-being of the next generation. One goal of this article is to call attention to ways in which both individuals and society as a whole benefit from increased levels of education.”
https://mygoalliance.org/pluginfile.php/30337/mod_lesson/page_contents/11176/education-pays-2013-full-report.pdf
https://mygoalliance.org/pluginfile.php/30337/mod_lesson/page_contents/11176/education-pays-2013-full-report.pdf
“After years of slow growth, jobs are back in large numbers. The national unemployment rate is now 5.3 percent, down from the peak of 10 percent in October 2009. The economy added 250,000 jobs per month in 2014, the best year in job growth since the beginning of the millennium. The job growth fell off a bit in 2015, but has continued its deliberate advance, adding on average more than 200,000 jobs per month.”
https://mygoalliance.org/pluginfile.php/30337/mod_lesson/page_contents/11176/Good-Jobs_Full_Final.pdf
https://mygoalliance.org/pluginfile.php/30337/mod_lesson/page_contents/11176/Good-Jobs_Full_Final.pdf
The Great Recession of 2007 has clearly been the worst financial downturn in the U.S. economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Five years later, unemployment rates have only recently dropped below 8 percent, and the slow recovery has disproportionately affected minorities and young people. African Americans are twice as likely to be unemployed as their white counterparts and three times as likely to be unemployed if they are young. All Americans younger than age 24 are almost twice as likely to be unemployed as the rest of the working-age population. Given the weak political support for big-government solutions, the $787 billion fiscal stimulus package of 2009 will probably be the last of its kind for the foreseeable future (although Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s September 2012 pledge to pump $40 billion per month into the economy has buoyed the stock market). So far, the average growth rate of about 160,000 jobs per month has not been enough to absorb both the existing pool of unemployed and the flow of new entrants into the workforce. But we have recovered just under 6.1 million jobs of the 8.7 million lost in the recession - though the jobs lost look nothing like the jobs we've gained.”
https://mygoalliance.org/pluginfile.php/30337/mod_lesson/page_contents/11176/Recovery2020.FR_.Web_.pdf
https://mygoalliance.org/pluginfile.php/30337/mod_lesson/page_contents/11176/Recovery2020.FR_.Web_.pdf
The Rising Costs of Not Going to College
“For those who question the value of college in this era of soaring student debt and high unemployment, the attitudes and experiences of today’s young adults—members of the socalled Millennial generation—provide a compelling answer. On virtually every measure of economic well-being and career attainment—from personal earnings to job satisfaction to the share employed full time— young college graduates are outperforming their peers with less education. And when today’s young adults are compared with previous generations, the disparity in economic outcomes between college graduates and those with a high school diploma or less formal schooling has never been greater in the modern era. “
https://mygoalliance.org/pluginfile.php/30337/mod_lesson/page_contents/11176/SDT-higher-ed-FINAL-02-11-2014.pdf
https://mygoalliance.org/pluginfile.php/30337/mod_lesson/page_contents/11176/SDT-higher-ed-FINAL-02-11-2014.pdf