Economics and employment
Report: Degrees for What Jobs? (PDF)
Erin Sparks, Mary Jo Waits, National Governors Association, March 2011
Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 2004-2006 (PDF)
U.S. Census Bureau, March 2011
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge (PDF)
William C. Symonds, Robert B. Schwartz and Ronald Ferguson, Pathways to Prosperity Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education, February 2011
Building a Pathway to Dignity and Work (PDF)
Illinois Commission on the Elimination of Poverty, December 2010
Creating 21st Century Jobs: Increasing Employment and Wages for American Workers in a Changing World (PDF)
Center for American Progress and The Hamilton Project, December 2010
Making the Workforce System Work for Public Housing Residents: How Lessons from Opportunity Chicago Can Inform Rethinking the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (PDF)
Opportunity Chicago, November 2010
Building a Higher Skilled Workforce: Results and Implications from the BridgeConnect National Survey (PDF)
Julian L. Alssid, Melissa Goldberg, Sarah M. Klerk, Workforce Strategy Center, November 2010
Putting Data to Work: Interim Recommendations From The Benchmarking Project (PDF)
Marty Miles, Sheila Maguire, Stacy Woodruff-Bolte, Carol Clymer, Josh Freely, Public/Private Ventures, November 2010
Have Welfare-to-Work Programs Improved Over Time In Putting Welfare Recipients To Work? (PDF)
David H. Greenberg, Philip K. Robins, Institute for Research on Poverty, November 2010
Recession Hits Workers’ Paychecks: Wage growth has collapsed (PDF)
Lawrence Mishel, Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute, August 2010
TANF Tested: Lives of Families in Poverty During the Recession (PDF)
Network Connection, Third Quarter 2010
Reentry Opportunities in the Green Economy (PDF)
The National Employment Law Project, PolicyLink and The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, July 2010
A Pathway to Clean Jobs and Prosperity: State Policies For Helping Low-Income Working Families Build Clean Energy Careers (PDF)
David Altstadt, The Working Poor Families Project, June 2010
Low-Skill Workers’ Access to Quality Green Jobs
Karin Martinson, Alexandra Stanczyk, Lauren Eyster, The Urban Institute, May 2010
Aiming Higher: Removing Barriers to Education, Training and Jobs for Low-Income Women (PDF)
Women’s Economic Security Campaign, May 2010
Unemployment Rate by Alabama County (PDF)
Center for Business and Economic Research, April 2010
The Legacy of a Cotton Culture
Larry Lee, The Daily Yonder, March 2010
Why Poverty Matters to Alabama’s Economy (PDF)
Dr. Beck Taylor, Business Alabama, July 2008
Alabama: Income Inequality Grew Over the Past Two Decades (PDF)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 2008
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Center for Business and Economic Research, 2010
After Cotton: Alabama’s Small Cities Are Poised for Recovery
The Economist, March 2010
Alabama is Bleeding Rural Jobs
Bill Bishop, Robert Gallardo, The Daily Yonder, December 2009
Advantage Alabama, Spring 2006
Wayne Flynt, Auburn University, October 2005
Susan Pace Hamill, University of Alabama Law School, 2004
Restructuring of the US Meat Processing Industry and New Hispanic Migrant Destinations
William Kandel, Emilio A. Parrado, Population and Development Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, September 2005
Alabama’s Income: Past and Present
Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Alabama, 2000
Timber and the Economy of Alabama
John Bliss, Ken Muehlenfeld, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, June 1995
Class Structure and Economic Development in the American South, 1865-1955
Jonathon M. Wiener, American Historical Review, October 1979
Center for Business and Economic Research