A troubling lack of skills in literacy and numeracy
One in five employed American adults with a bachelor’s degree lacks important skills in literacy, with one in three falling below proficient levels in numeracy.
This green energy company creates high-paying jobs. Why can’t it fill them?
Dandelion Energy has hit licensing snags, geography challenges, and limits on local training as it tries to hire workers to drill the wells for its heat pumps.
Stacking to a degree
Advocates for alternative education pathways also work to make sure participants in non-college programs can earn college credit.
A big bet on short-term academic programs
Demand for non-degree, career-focused, and skill-based post-secondary education was growing rapidly before the pandemic, 2U's ceo said, and that's only grown.
How should we be rethinking careers?
The nation doesn’t have a labor shortage, one expert says. But it certainly has an opportunity gap and a dysfunctional labor market.
Making sure graduates have tech skills that matter
Tech jobs aren't the center of the Biden workforce proposals, but that doesn't mean demand for those skills has waned.
Priming the pump
Demand is surging for allied health care workers. Futuro Health is an unusual model worth watching, bringing together a wide collection of partners to tackle the enormous societal challenge.
Where Congress is headed on workforce issues
Interest in apprenticeships and other non-traditional pathways to jobs reflects shifts in how people prepare for the job market and move through careers.
What to watch as interest grows in alternative paths to jobs
Will new hiring models open doors to well-paying and satisfying careers? Or will they track some groups into unstable, low-wage jobs?
How a new Miami partnership seeks to close equity gaps in tech jobs
The partnership among Miami Dade College, SoftBank, and Correlation One could be a model for creating more tech career opportunities for job seekers from underrepresented groups.