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Partnerships between employers and adult education providers are essential to workforce development programs. With workplaces changing dramatically to keep up with an increasingly competitive business environment, savvy businesspeople know they gain an advantage by supporting basic-skills and technical-training programs that can supply them with well-prepared employees, both in the short term and the long term. This section contains examples of successful strategies as well as information about the relationship between adult education and welfare-to-work programs.