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Mind The Gap: Leadership Development and Workforce Development

The iconic London Underground warning, "Mind the Gap," holds a new significance for organizations striving for growth. Beyond its literal meaning, it serve ...

BY Chris Trout

04.03.2024
Employment and Jobs

Job Quality Newsletter: Spotlighting Women in the Workforce

As we celebrate Women's History Month, we draw inspiration from trailblazers like Frances Perkins, the US secretary of labor during Franklin D. Roosevelt's ...

BY Maureen Conway

03.28.2024
Economic Development

Catalyzing Employee Ownership to Support Equity: A Conversation with Mowa Haile

Mowa Haile is the President of Sky Blue Builders and CEO of Apex Underground, two companies that recently converted to employee ownership through an Employ ...

BY Economic Opportunities Program

03.22.2024
Employment and Jobs

Developing for the Long Game

The future of American competitive success hinges on a strong, skilled workforce. How we develop and build this workforce is a big and complex undertaking. ...

BY Chris Trout

03.14.2024
Employment and Jobs

Perspectives on Farm Work in the US

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, farm workers were deemed essential, a rare public acknowledgment that food would not grace our tables without them. ...

BY Maxwell Johnson

03.12.2024
Employment and Jobs

Important and Hard Work

Before I get into details about the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship, which met for our second in-person seminar last week, I’m going to get emot ...

BY Haley Glover

03.08.2024
Employment and Jobs

Job Quality Newsletter: What Improving Job Quality Means for Black Workers

How the US Economy Looks to Black Workers Insights from our November 2017 event on “Race, Work, and Opportunity in America” still provide food for tho ...

BY Maureen Conway

02.29.2024
Small Business

Testimony of Joyce Klein, Aspen Institute Business Ownership Initiative and Responsible Business Lending Coalition before the Maryland House of Delegates Economic Matters Committee on HR 0574 Commercial Financing – Small Business Truth in Lending Act

Honorable Delegates, thank you for the opportunity to testify on this important issue. I am the Senior Director of the Business Ownership Initiative at ...

BY Joyce Klein

02.20.2024
Employment and Jobs

Job Quality Newsletter — 2023 Highlights

Few years have presented us with such a varied and complex menagerie of issues as the ones we face this Labor Day.

BY Maureen Conway

01.31.2024
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