Over the past fifteen years, the statistical evidence offered as proof in employment discrimination lawsuits has become increasingly more sophisticated, and a number of books have been written on the statistical concepts and techniques used in these cases. This journal article presents a review of some of the books currently ...
This blog post by Senior TA Consultants Abby Bandurraga and Gina Wells lays out the Five Elements of Effective State Apprenticeship, a framework developed by AIR through the State Apprenticeship Expansion Project.
The purpose of this journal article was to examine the effect of the largest state Medicaid expansions in the 1990s and 2000s on all-cause, healthcare-amenable, non-healthcare-amenable, and HIV-related adult mortality using state level mortality data. The authors found no evidence that Medicaid expansions affect any of the outcomes in any ...
Every year, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics releases an annual report, America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being. AIR subject matter experts have identified some interesting findings from several indicators in the 2019 report’s education domain and explain why they matter. ...
Getting a job is about more than academic performance. In this blog post, Kimberly Kendziora discusses the growing body of research on the importance of social and emotional skills, such as self-management, social awareness, and relationship skills.
Federal and state funding for infrastructure, workforce and economic development, and apprenticeship expansion are flowing into states and regional and local entities. Here we describe two of the primary challenges that come with this new funding and promising approaches to address them.