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University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

2009

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Ex-Offender Populations In Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat Jan 2009

Ex-Offender Populations In Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat

ETI Publications

Released prisoners are among the most difficult labor force populations to serve and least likely to be successfully engaged in sustained employment due to persistent legal problems, low education attainment levels, high recidivism rates, and driver’s license suspension and revocation restrictions. The stigma of being an ex-inmate and the limitations this places on those released and expected to become gainfully employed are compounded further by legal sanctions placed on many adults who have spent time in correctional facilities. A total of 42,046 Milwaukee County working age adults have been in the DOC system, including men and women presently incarcerated in …

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Milwaukee Drilldown On African American Males, John Pawasarat Jan 2009

Milwaukee Drilldown On African American Males, John Pawasarat

ETI Publications

The American Community Survey reported an estimated 48,420 African American males in the labor force from Milwaukee County in 2008. Of these, 40,482 (or 83.6%) were employed and 7,938 were unemployed and seeking for work. The 16.4% unemployment rate for African American males (ages 16 and above) is more than double the rates for white males (5.8%) and Hispanic males (8.1%), according to the 2008 ACS data. Among African American males, the employment rate was highest for men of prime working age (i.e., ages 25 thru 54) where 87.6% were employed in 2008. Unemployment rates were the worst for male …

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Second Year Evaluation Of The Center For Driver's License Recovery & Employability, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat Jan 2009

Second Year Evaluation Of The Center For Driver's License Recovery & Employability, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat

ETI Publications

The Center for Driver’s License Recovery & Employability (CDLRE) was established in March 2007 to increase the number of licensed drivers among low-income Milwaukee County residents. The CDLRE provides driver’s license recovery assistance to county residents aged 18 and above, with suspended and revoked driver’s licenses, income at 200% of poverty or below, and having no pending Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) offenses. This evaluation report examines driver’s license recovery rates for 862 participants who completed case management services in the first sixteen months. The employment outcomes are measured using First Quarter 2008 data for clients who completed their case management …

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Socio-Economic Analysis Of Neighborhood Issues Facing Milwaukee Public Schools Students And Their Families, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat Jan 2009

Socio-Economic Analysis Of Neighborhood Issues Facing Milwaukee Public Schools Students And Their Families, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat

ETI Publications

As a planning supplement to the annual count of school children in the city of Milwaukee, the Employment and Training Institute assembled administrative and institutional data bases to help provide a socio-economic analysis of neighborhood issues facing Milwaukee Public Schools students and their families. This report provides neighborhood drilldowns on key issues of concern to educators. Nine Milwaukee zip codes historically targeted for Community Development Block Grant funding because of their concentrations of poverty are analyzed in detail. The zip code drilldowns explore interrelationships at the neighborhood level between earnings of Milwaukee parents, job availability, the economic recession, expansion of …

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Occupational Shifts In Private Industry In The Milwaukee Metro Area, Lois M. Quinn Jan 2009

Occupational Shifts In Private Industry In The Milwaukee Metro Area, Lois M. Quinn

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Employment patterns of companies with 100 or more employees (and financial institutions with 50 or more workers) were examined for the four-county Milwaukee metro area using summaries of annual EEO-1 reports. The data help identify occupational shifts, progress toward a diversified labor force and challenges facing Milwaukee area employers and workers. The advantage of this data base is that it shows the actual (rather than estimated) numbers of workers employed in all larger private companies and also shows changes in employment by gender and race/ethnicity. Total employment in the mid-sized and larger private companies remained nearly flat even though significant …

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Drilldown On Ex-Offender Populations In Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat Jan 2009

Drilldown On Ex-Offender Populations In Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat

ETI Publications

Since 2002, each year 7,500-8,000 Milwaukee County residents are admitted into Wisconsin Department of Corrections facilities, and 7,500-8,000 individuals are released from the DOC into neighborhoods in the county. The data entries analyzed for admission and release from DOC facilities are for any reason, including for formal alternatives to revocation or for temporary probation and parole holds. Given high recidivism rates, some adults recycle through prison a number of times. African American men make up most of the DOC admissions with more than 5,000 incarcerated into DOC per year since 2003. White male admits have totaled 1,200– 1,400 per year. …

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Socio-Economic Analysis Of Issues Facing Children And Families In Milwaukee Public Schools: Presentation, Lois M. Quinn Jan 2009

Socio-Economic Analysis Of Issues Facing Children And Families In Milwaukee Public Schools: Presentation, Lois M. Quinn

ETI Publications

This presentation for Milwaukee Public Schools administrators details critical neighborhood issues facing MPS children and families, including the housing crisis and spike in foreclosures, crime and traffic accidents near the schools, availability of subsidized child care, changes in public assistance policies for parents, drivers’ license barriers to employment, rates of incarceration in MPS neighborhoods, lasting impacts of the recession, and earnings of employed Milwaukee families.

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Health Occupation Drilldowns For Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat Jan 2009

Health Occupation Drilldowns For Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat

ETI Publications

In cooperation with the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board, the Employment and Training Institute examined credentialing records of Milwaukee County and Wisconsin workers regulated by the state Department of Regulation & Licensing. This report uses the databases to profile the Milwaukee County labor force in seven health occupations: registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, dental hygienists, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, physical therapists, and physical therapist assistants.

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Understanding The Unemployed Workforce In Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat Jan 2009

Understanding The Unemployed Workforce In Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat

ETI Publications

For this report the Employment and Training Institute analyzed the employment history of 48,131 workers in Milwaukee County who were laid off their jobs and recently have received unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. Five quarters of wages were examined, and six difficult-to-serve subpopulations were examined in detail -- ex-offenders in the Department of Corrections system, participants in the Shares child care subsidy program, public assistance cases with children, adult FoodShare cases with no children, aged and/or disabled population on public assistance, and W-2 cases. The strength of the analysis and its timing are that it captures a large portion of the …

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