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GCI Working Paper Series - 1999
Obstacles
to Employment of Women with Abusive Partners:
A Summary of Select Interview
Data
Stephanie Riger, Courtney Ahrents, Amy Blickenstaff, &
Jennifer Camacho
July 1999
GCP-99-1
A high proportion of women who receive welfare are abused by their intimate
partners. This paper examines the relationship among welfare receipt,
job readiness (i.e., employment history and training), employment resources
(i.e., transportation and child care) and intimate violence among women
in three domestic violence shelters. These women have few job skills
and many barriers to employment. Many reported long-term physical or
mental health problems, and most had young children at home, making
work difficult. Most of the women were unemployed and few had any kind
of job training. Their job histories consisted of intermittent work
for low pay in unskilled positions. Many of their abusers disrupted
the women’s work and school efforts, severely interfering with
their attempts at self-sufficiency.
Principles
and Practices for Creating Systems Reform in Urban Workforce Development
Discussion Paper for The Brookings Institution Casey
Jobs Initiative Policy Retreat
Joan Fitzgerald
July 1999
GCP-99-2
This paper presents a framework for analyzing how to create effective
urban workforce development systems that are closely linked to economic
development initiatives. The paper identifies several key issues that
will have to be addressed in thinking through systems change.
The
Proposed New Interstate 69 Highway:
Is It a Cost-Effective Rural Economic
Development Took for Southwest Indiana?
Wim Wiewel, Joseph J. Persky, & Mark Edward
Sendzik
August 1999
GCP-99-3
This study examines the cost-effectiveness of the Evansville-to-Bloomington
portion of the proposed new Interstate 69 highway in Southwest Indiana
in fulfilling its stated purpose of stimulating economic development
in four rural Indiana counties. We compare the proposed highway with
other rural economic development programs and strategies such as rural
enterprise zones, federal economic development programs, business incubators,
and local industrial development groups. In addition, we use a variety
of state cost and job creation estimates, cost calculations, and comparison
figures. Although this study does not take a position on whether the
proposed new highway should be built, we conclude that if the purpose
of the I-69 project is economic development in these rural counties,
far more cost-efficient alternatives almost certainly exist.
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