Identifying Growth Industries with High-Quality Jobs
Our policy team analyzes various industries and the labor market as a whole to identify growth areas in which to develop training for low-income/low-skilled adults.  Our Middle Wage Jobs project compliments this work by identifying occupations, industries, and industry clusters with high-quality jobs accessible to those with less than a BA.   You can read some of SJI's reports right here.

SJI Job Trends Report:

The SJI Jobs Trends Reports summarize workforce and economic news, and provides updates on trends affecting opportunities for low-income people.  Each report highlights timely and practical information about a specific industry sector.  Browse our Job Trends Reports right here.

Improving Community College Access for Low-Income Adults
Low-income working families face significant challenges in today's community college system.  SJI focuses on finding solutions to increase accessibility of education and job training for low-income/low-skilled residents so that they may gain quality employment.   To read more about this issue, visit our publications section to read SJI's brief on vocational education and financial aid.

Building Job Retention and Career Advancement
SJI’s policy team raises awareness among policymakers of the relationship between employment, work supports (e.g. child care, health care), and asset building in improving the economic circumstances of low-income workers and their families. 

In 2007, SJI and 10 other states worked with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, as part of the Bridging the Gaps research and outreach project, to look at the gaps created for working families by the current work support system.  SJI produced a research brief, summarizing the findings from the national project for Washington State, as well as providing discussion around current work support issues and policy recommendations.  To read the brief, click here.