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Lessons Learned: Financing Workforce Education and Training through Outcomes-Based Repayments
This paper, to be released on April 20, 2026, is a partnership between Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, and the Social Finance…
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