Skills to Live by: Participant Reflections on the Value of their Sectoral Training Experience

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a recent Aspen Institute report looks at the impact of job training programs on low-skilled and low-income workers – but this time, it’s from their own perspectives. The report captures participants’ sense of how programs affected their families, community interactions, and self-esteem, and what challenges to success and stability remain. Among the continued struggles were finding affordable child care, medical care, and transportation and balancing the demands of work and family life, typically with little job flexibility or leave.