Role for Work-Force Groups in Helping New Workers Achieve Economic Security

By Caroline Preston

Unrealized Gains: How Workforce Organizations Can Put Money Back in the Pockets of Low-Wage Workers, by Mae Watson Grote, asserts that job-training organizations can play a role in helping new workers meet their financial needs. The report profiles three work-force groups---Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation, in New York, the Cara Program, in Chicago, and Maine Centers for Women, Work, and Community, in Augusta---and shows how their