Connecting the Tangled Systems of Reentry Training and Employment
Formerly incarcerated people must navigate a maze of government systems, workforce programs, and parole requirements as they try to land jobs. The company Workbay aims to make it all easier.
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Building the Infrastructure of Opportunity
Learning options have mushroomed. Now we need the institutions—and the relationships—to make them work.
Workforce Pell is Here. Noncredit Qualifies with Caveats
Noncredit programs must be offered in clock hours to be eligible for the new program, and they also must clear a lot of other bars.
Who Will Staff the AI Economy? They’ll Be Community College Grads
Many of the jobs AI is creating right now are technician-level roles, but the national conversation too often skips over the support community colleges need to prepare those workers.
Expanding Apprenticeship
The vast majority of U.S. businesses are small and medium-sized, but few participate in apprenticeship. Targeted government grants and tax credits could help them get off the sidelines. Also, reimagining the prison-to-workforce pipeline and an essay on building the infrastructure…
AI Safety Net
Emerging partnerships between AI labs and philanthropies seek to measure and prepare for the tech’s impacts on jobs—but the clock is ticking. Also, the final federal rules for Workforce Pell, and essays on how community college grads will staff the…
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Readiness Isn’t Enough. That’s Why Young People Need Apprenticeship More Than Ever
Being prepared for work isn’t enough in today’s labor market. Students need to be connected to opportunities, and apprenticeship does just that.
What We Got Wrong (and Right) about Bringing AI into Workforce Training
Training providers are under enormous pressure to integrate AI, but sometimes getting it right means slowing down and asking, why?
Measuring the Launch and Calling It the Voyage
What today’s career support gets wrong, and how it needs to change in the age of AI.