Worker Mobility Resources

Below are links to tools, resources, and information to help organizations take steps to support worker mobility.

Engaging and Supporting the Disconnected Workforce

What Works to Improve Employment and Earnings for People with Low Incomes shares findings from a systematic review of research on interventions designed to improve employment and training outcomes for individuals with low incomes.

Fair Chance to Advance describes a multi-year initiative to transform state systems so people with histories of incarceration can access education and careers and achieve economic mobility.

Recruit Military connects employers with the military community to support successful transitions from military to civilian careers.

Enhancing Career Navigation

Modernizing Career Navigation in the U.S. presents policy considerations to improve career navigation services and support for students and job seekers.

Competency Model Clearinghouse points to dynamic models of skills and competencies required for 26 industries and sectors.

Identifying Credentials Aligned with Industry Demand

Building Credential Currency shares tools that support identifying and scaling attainment of non-degree credentials aligned to in-demand, high-skill, high-wage occupations.

Addressing Barriers to Job Training Enrollment and Completion

Work-Based Learning Policy Toolkit for Out-of-School Youth and Disadvantaged Adults provides strategies for making work-based learning accessible to populations facing barriers to workforce entry. 

Breaking Down Barriers: Experiments into Policies That Might Incentivize Employers to Hire Ex-Offenders proposes policy and program recommendations to reduce hiring barriers for ex-offenders.

Removing Licensing Barriers

Occupational Licensing Final Report: Assessing State Policies and Practices summarizes promising practices and lessons learned from a 16-state project on streamlining occupational licensing and reducing licensing barriers.

Occupational Licensure: Interstate Compacts in Action provides an overview of interstate compacts as state-led solutions to shared licensure challenges and examples of active interstate compacts in various occupations.

Implementing Workforce Pell

Workforce Pell: An Overview for Governors identifies governors’ key decision points related to Workforce Pell policies and processes; analysis of the data infrastructure states need to support implementation; and a sample roadmap and timeline.

Workforce Pell Data Collaborative and Framework describes a collaboratively developed framework of critical data elements for collecting, reporting, and analyzing information on Workforce Pell eligible programs, participants, and outcomes.

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• Resource Publication Date: 2026
• Posted by: Danielle Herbert
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