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More U.S. workers than ever have college degrees—but the tide could be turning against higher education in the workplace.

Rework America Alliance Launches Local Partnerships to Help Connect Job Seekers to Good Jobs News provided by Share this article NEW YORK, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Markle Foundations Rework America Alliance, a unique coalition of civil rights groups, nonprofits, private sector employers, labor unions and educators, today announced the first regions in which it will partner with local community-based organizations to deploy resources to help job seekers connect to good jobs. The Alliance...

Modernizing and Investing in Workforce Development Modernizing and Investing in Workforce Development is the latest of a series of papers recommending systemic improvements to modernize the United States’ outdated patchwork of workforce policies, all being issued by the Better Employment and Training Strategies (BETS) taskforce. BETS is a coalition of more than 40 leading practitioners and researchers that has come together to develop these recommendations. This paper, co-authored by CSW Pres...

Building a National Unemployment Insurance System This paper first makes the case for comprehensive reform of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program in the United States, exploring the many ways in which the program has failed in recent decades to accomplish both its macroeconomic goal of economic stabilization and its microeconomic goal of temporary income restoration for workers laid off through no fault of their own. It then outlines options for reform and recommends a uniform, much more co...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently projected record-breaking growth in 2021, but in the same document, it also made an alarming prediction: The U.S. labor market will not fully recover until 2024. High unemployment and labor force dropout rates could persist and spawn a repeat of the “lost decade” and unequal recovery that followed the Great Recession. Workers suffering the greatest economic harm in the current crisis include people of color, low-wage earners in the service sect...

To Build Back Better, Job Quality Is the Key The United States has a problem—too few quality jobs. This problem contributes to a variety of national ills, from low productivity to poor health, to fractured politics and divisions within society. Low job quality has disproportionately negative effects on women workers and workers of color, contributing significantly to earnings and wealth gaps across demographic groups. In “To Build Back Better, Job Quality is the Key,” Maureen Conway (The ...