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• Assessing Demand and Training for Welders in the Southeast Wisconsin Region
• Learning About the Welding Job Market in the Southeast Wisconsin Region
• The EARN (Early Assessment and Retention Network) Model for Effectively Targeting WIA and TANF Resources to Participants
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan area: Week of May 24, 2006. See the Executive Summary and the Full Report.
• An Analysis of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Region: Job Supply and Demand, prepared for the Private Industry Council of Milwaukee County, 2006.
• Occupational Drill Down of Training Needs in the Milwaukee Metro Area (2006), prepared for Milwaukee Area Technical College.
• Job Opportunities for Milwaukee Youth Entering the Labor Force (2006), prepared for the Milwaukee Job Corps Center.
• New Careers for Information Processing Workers in the Health Fields: Need as of May 2006, prepared for Milwaukee Area Technical College.
• Analysis of Milwaukee County JTPA Title IIA Participants, 1988-1994

• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of May 23, 2005.
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of October 20, 2003
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of October 21, 2002
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of October 15, 2001
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of May 15, 2000
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of May 17, 1999
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of October 19, 1998
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of May 18, 1998
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of October 20, 1997
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of May 19, 1997
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of October 21, 1996
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of May 20, 1996
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of October 23, 1995
• Survey of Job Openings in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of May 22, 1995
• Survey of Job Opening in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of October 24, 1994
• Survey of Job Opening in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of May 23, 1994
• Survey of Job Opening in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of October 25, 1993
• Survey of Job Opening in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area: Week of May 24, 1993

• Surveying Job Vacancies in Local Labor Markets: A How-To Manual (1998) [manual online]

• Assessment of 2007 Client Outcomes for the Center for Driver's License Recovery & Employability (2008)
• Driver's License Issues and Recommendations from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board ( 2007)
• Barriers to Employment: Prison Time (2007)
• Child Care Selected by Families in the Wisconsin Shares Child Care Subsidy Program (2006)
• The Driver License Status of the Voting Age Population in Wisconsin (2005)
• The Child Care Costs of Engaging the Welfare Population in Work: The Milwaukee Experience (2002)
• Increasing Child Care Rates and the Rate Setting Process Under the Wisconsin Shares Program (2002) [complete report online]
• Findings from the National Survey of America's Families for Milwaukee County Families with Preschool Children, 1997 and 1999 (2002) [complete report online]
• NSAF Findings on Preschool Children, Mothers' Employment Status and Child Care Choices (2002) [complete report online]
• Usage of the Earned Income Tax Credit by Employed Families in Milwaukee County (2000) [complete report online]
• Removing Transportation Barriers to Employment: The Impact of Driver's License Suspension Policies on Milwaukee County Teens (2000)
• Removing Transportation Barriers to Employment: Assessing Driver's License and Vehicle Ownership Pattterns of Low-Income Populations. (1998)
• Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Care Subsidies in Milwaukee County: 1996-1999. (1999) [complete report online]
• Removing Barriers to Employment: The Child Care-Jobs Equation. (1998)

• Report Card on African American and Minority Participation in Construction Trade Apprenticeships in the Milwaukee Area: A Two-Year Progress Report collaborative study with the NAACP Milwaukee Branch (2008).
• Report Card on Minority and Female Participation in Construction Trade Apprentices in the Milwaukee Area: Who's in the Pipeline for Skilled Construction Trades (2006).
  See also NAACP Recommendations
• Who Gets Construction Jobs and Where? Employment of African Americans, Hispanics and Total Minorities in the Construction Industry and Construction Trades in the Milwaukee MSA (2006)
• How to Use ETI Drill Downs to Map Employment Integration and to Assess Workforce Diversity at Government Jobsites [in PDF] (2005)
• Workforce Development Challenges: Meeting Present and Future Demand for Nursing and Teaching Professionals in Metro Milwaukee (2004) [online]
• Workforce Development Challenges: Meeting Present and Future Demand for Nursing and Teaching Professionals in Metro Milwaukee (2004)
• A Labor Market Planning Document for Employers: Changing Demographics of the Milwaukee Metro Area Labor Force (2003) in PDF format or in HTML format.
• Employment Patterns of Larger Milwaukee Area Companies: Occupational Shifts, Job Expansion and Progress Toward Diversity (1998)
• School to Work Student Planning Books (1999)
• A Planning Guide to Help Employers Utilize the Full Potential of the Milwaukee Area Labor Market (1994)
• Jobs, Skills, Location and Discrimination: An Analysis of Milwaukee's Inner City and Metro Areas (1994)
• A Study of the Labor Market Experience of Young African American Males in Milwaukee and Wisconsin (1992) -- Executive Summary, Rose paper, and Edari paper. See also the summary in html.
• Research on the GED Credential (1986)
• Attempted Reform of the GED Credential in Wisconsin (1997)

• Business Place-of-Work Drill Downs
• Neighborhood Workforce Drill Downs
• Employer Diversity Drill Downs
• Urban Markets Retail Sales Leakage/Surplus
• Purchasing Power Profiles
• ETI Business and Diversity Methodology Page
• How to Use ETI Place-of-Work and Purchasing Power Drill Downs: Drill Downs for the Burleigh Main Street Project
• How to Use Special Census Tabulations for Workforce and Transportation Drill Downs of HUD Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, and Community Development Block Grant Neighborhoods: Drill Downs for the Milwaukee Renewal Community

• Purchasing Power Data, Maps, and Rankings for U.S. HOME PAGE
• ETI Purchasing Power Profiles and RANKINGS for 100 METRO AREAS
• ETI Purchasing Power and Workforce Density Profiles for All CENSUS TRACTS in U.S.
• ETI Purchasing Power, Business Activity, and Workforce Density Profiles for All Residential ZIP CODES in U.S.
• ETI MAPS of Purchasing Power Density for the 100 Largest Metro Areas -- Food at Home and Apparel
• METHODOLOGY for the ETI Urban Purchasing Power Profiles

• Exposing Urban Legends: The Real Purchasing Power of Central City Neighborhoods, [in PDF], a discussion paper for The Brookings Institution, (2001).
• Confronting Anti-Urban Marketing Stereotypes: A Milwaukee Economic Development Challenge (2001) [online]
• Purchasing Power of Milwaukee Commercial Districts (2001) [online]

Milwaukee Purchasing Power Profiles (2004) [in PDF format]

• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53202
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53204
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53205
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53206
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53207
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53208
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee, Brown Deer, Glendale, River Hills ZIP Code 53209
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53210
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee, Shorewood, Whitefish Bay ZIP Code 53211
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53212
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee, West Milwaukee ZIP Code 53215
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53216
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee ZIP Code 53218
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee, Greenfield, West Allis, West Milwaukee ZIP Code 53219
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee, Greenfield ZIP Code 53221
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee, Wauwatosa ZIP Code 53222
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee, Brown Deer ZIP Code 53223
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee, Brown Deer ZIP Code 53224
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee, Wauwatosa 53225
• Purchasing Power in Milwaukee 53233

• For comparison reports on other ZIP codes in the Milwaukee metro area, see Milwaukee Purchasing Power Profiles Page
• For an example of a "drill down" purchasing power analysis, see PowerPoint presentation on purchasing power and economic opportunities within a three-mile radius of Cesar E. Chavez Drive and W. National Avenue on Milwaukee's near southside (2001).

HOUSING

• Milwaukee's Housing Crisis: Housing Affordability and Mortgage Lending Practices
• Legal Action of Wisconsin Report on Milwaukee's Housing Crisis: Foreclosures, Evictions, and Subprime Lending
• Report on Mortgage Lending Practices in Milwaukee County, Part Two
• Ameriquest Mortgage Activity in Milwaukee County

PRISON POPULATION

• Barriers to Employment: Prison Time

NEIGHBORHOOD INDICATORS

• 2007 Neighborhood Indicators of Employment and Economic Well-Being of Families, Barriers to Employment, and Untapped Opportunities
  • Executive Summary - New Indicators for Milwaukee Zipcode 53206, includes new analysis of subprime lending practices, housing foreclosures, ex-prisoners in neighborhood
  • New Indicators of Neighborhood Need in Zipcode 53206 [Full Report, 790K]

• 2006 Neighborhood Indicators of Employment and Economic Well-Being of Families, Barriers to Employment, and Untapped Opportunities
  • Neighborhood Indicators for Zipcode 53204
  • Neighborhood Indicators for Zipcode 53205
  • Neighborhood Indicators for Zipcode 53206
  • Neighborhood Indicators for Zipcode 53208
  • Neighborhood Indicators for Zipcode 53210
  • Neighborhood Indicators for Zipcode 53212
  • Neighborhood Indicators for Zipcode 53216
  • Neighborhood Indicators for Zipcode 53218
  • Neighborhood Indicators for Zipcode 53233

• Use of Refund Anticipation Loans by Earned Income Tax Credit Filers in Central City Milwaukee Neighborhoods (2002)
• Tracking the Progress of Welfare Reform Quickly: A Model for Measuring Neighborhood Health and Change [in PDF], a discussion paper for The Brookings Institution website (2001).
• Economic Status of Milwaukee County Children in the Year 2000
• Economic Status of Milwaukee County Children in the Year 1999
• State of Milwaukee's Children in 1998: Family Income/Economic Support Report

• Assumptions and Limitations of the Census Bureau Methodology Ranking Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in Cities and Metro Areas (2004) [PDF format]
• Racial Integration in Urban America: A Block Level Analysis of African American and White Housing Patterns (2003) [report available in PDF or HTML format]
• Density Maps of African American and White Populations in 100 Metro Areas

• Wisconsin AFDC/W-2 Caseloads and Unemployment Rates by County: July 1986-December 1998

• Analysis of Food Stamp and Medical Assistance Caseload Reductions in Milwaukee County: 1995-1999 (2000) [complete report online]
• Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Care Subsidies in Milwaukee County: 1996-1999 (1999) [complete report online]
• Project Get Started: Comprehensive Assessments of 1,551 Mothers with Infants on AFDC, a project of Milwaukee Area Technical College (1997).
• Employment and Earnings of Milwaukee County Single Parent AFDC Families: Establishing Benchmarks for Measuring Employment Outcomes Under "W-2." (1997)
• The Employer Perspective: Jobs Held by the Milwaukee County Single Parent Population, January 1996-March 1997. (1997)
• Initial Findings on Mobility and Employment of Public Assistance Recipients in Milwaukee County and Factors Relating to Changes in W-2 Regions Over Time. (1997)
• Child Care Needs of Low-Income Employed Parents in Milwaukee County Under W-2. (1996)
• Financial Impact of W-2 and Related Welfare Reform Initiatives on Milwaukee County AFDC Cases. (1996)
• Integrating Milwaukee County AFDC Recipients into the Local Labor Market. (1995)
• Demographics of Milwaukee County Populations Expected to Work Under Proposed Welfare Initiatives. (1995)
• Concentration of Children in Poverty in Milwaukee County Neighborhoods. (1995)
• A History of Jobs for Workers on Relief in Milwaukee County, 1930-1994 (1995). The full report is available as a scanned PDF file.
• "Replacing Welfare with Work in the WPA: The Handicraft Project That Made Milwaukee Famous", the 28th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, October 1997, by Lois Quinn.
• Wisconsin Welfare Employment Experiments: An Evaluation of the WEJT and CWEP Programs (1993) -- Executive Summary, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7. See also summary in html.
• Interim Report to the Wisconsin Legislature on the WEJT/CWEP Evaluation. (1991)

• Evaluation of the Impact of Wisconsin's Learnfare Experiment on the School Attendance of Teenagers Receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (1992). See also the summary on html.
• Report to the Wisconsin Legislature on the Learnfare Evaluation (1991). See also the summary on html.
• The Impact of Learnfare on Milwaukee County Social Service Clients (1990). See also the summary on html.

• Employment and Training Needs of Central City Workers: December, 1996
• Survey of Central City Milwaukee Job Seekers: Fall 1995
• Linking Job Seekers to Available Job Openings: A Survey of Central City Milwaukee Workers, Fall 1994
• Profile of Central City Milwaukee Labor Force Participants: Fall 1993 Household Survey

• Thinking About the Future: Job Opportunities in the Milwaukee Labor Market | curriculum ideas | SCANS form for students | Hmong translation
• Thinking About the Future: High Demand Jobs in Technical Fields Requiring 1-2 Years of College | curriculum ideas
• Thinking About the Future: Expanding Career Opportunities for University Graduates | curriculum ideas
• Technical Assistance Guide for Implementing Youth Employment Competency Programs Under JTPA, 1984.

• UWM and the Wisconsin Economy, 2000.
• MATC Advantages for Filling Demand for High School/High Tech Workers, 2000.
• Longitudinal Follow-Up Study of MPS Students Graduating from MATC, 2000.
• Longitudinal Follow-Up Study of MPS Students Graduating from UWM, 2000.
• Employment and Education Experiences of MPS Class of 1999, 2000.

• Admissions Requirements of the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical and Adult Education System:
  Admissions Tests, High School Coursework, and Reading and Math Requirements for Each Program, 1985.
• Educational Follow-Up Study of Juveniles Released from Ethan Allen and Lincoln Hills Schools, 1982.

Updated May 2008
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