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Year Up: Providing a pathway from poverty to a professional career for urban young adults

This article is based on the book entitled A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs with Real Success and the 2012 to 2013 IRP New Perspectives in Social Policy Seminar. It is followed by a reaction by Carolyn Heinrich to the book, and a response to those comments by Gerald Chertavian.

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Children, Education & Training, Employment, Inequality & Mobility, Inequality & Mobility General, Job Training, Labor Market, Postsecondary Education, Transition to Adulthood

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