Critical Facilities
A successful workforce nonprofit leans into tech-adjacent job training with a skilled-trades flavor. Also, research on how many jobs data centers will create, innovative funding to prepare workers for manufacturing roles, and a new AI jobs hub in New York City.
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AI Isn’t Permanently Killing Entry-Level Tech Jobs—But It Is Forcing Us to Rebuild the On-Ramps
As old paths to expertise erode, education and tech leaders must build new learning models that help young software engineers develop the judgment that an AI-enabled world demands.
To Metallica, the Trades Are Hardcore
The heavy metal band runs a novel scholars program, now at 90 institutions, focused on educating young people in the trades.
The Credential-Tech and Skills-Tech Market Has a Transparency Problem
We need better benchmarks and transparency in workforce and credentialing technology.
Raising the Floor
QuikTrip and Costco show that companies can thrive with better pay, benefits, and schedules for workers. Also, how wage boards can lift up the care economy, Metallica’s expanding scholars’ program for the skilled trades, and essays on how workforce programs…
Local Talent
A California program seeks to shrink primary care deserts by building a clear path from community college to medical school and then back home again. Also, practical advice for state policymakers on closing gaps between K–12, college, and jobs, with…
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The $5.7B Staffing Cost Companies Aren’t Talking About
Manufacturers spend billions on temporary workers. Workforce programs can compete directly with traditional staffing agencies—and win.
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Workforce Pell Gets ROI Half Right. States Need to Do the Rest.
Federal metrics can’t distinguish between programs that fail students and those that are training essential workers for jobs the market systematically underpays. States need to…