How Do We Know Occupational Labor Shortages Exist?

Abstract

of workers during the recent recession, but the resources available, even with the ARRA funding, were insufficient to provide the same level of services throughout the two-year ARRA funding period that the system provided before the recession. Calculations, described in the larger study, estimate that an additional $8.5 billion, on top of the $2.03 billion appropriated under ARRA, would have been needed to provide prerecession-level services to the influx of participants into the three programs. A conscious decision was made to spend money on passive policies, such