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Navigating the Compliance Landscape to Advance Good Jobs: Resources for Small Businesses

Description Job quality and the work of ensuring that all jobs are good jobs is intertwined with a complex landscape of laws and regulations – rules ope ...

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Publication

10.14.2024
Employment and Jobs

WIOA, Employee Ownership, and Good Jobs: How Workforce Legislation Can Support Employee-Owned Companies and Boost Job Quality

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was designed to help workers move “into high-quality jobs and careers and help employers hire and retain skilled workers.”

BY Matt Helmer & 1 more

Publication

10.09.2024
Small Business

CDFIs Are Adding a Job Quality Lens to their Advising Work — Here’s How Your Advising Program Can Too

Many community development financial institutions (CDFIs) offer capital and education to small businesses in their communities, helping entrepreneurs — e ...

BY Rossana Espinoza

Blog Post

10.09.2024
Employment and Jobs

Community Benefits Agreements: A Tool for Creating Good Jobs

Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs), binding agreements created between community groups and organizations like real estate developers or large employers, are a powerful alternative that ensure people have a real say in shaping the outcomes these new investments will create for their communities.

Event

09.30.2024
Employment and Jobs

Launching the Good Jobs Collaborative: Centering Workers in Workforce Development Policy and Practice

Centering Workers in Workforce Development Policy and Practice

Event

03.07.2024
Employment and Jobs

Unveiling Sustainable Pathways in the Gig Economy

Over the past decade, the “gig economy” has become a common term, as increasing numbers of workers piece together gigs to make a living, and app-based ...

BY Frances Almodovar

Blog Post

12.07.2023
Employment and Jobs

Breaking the Cycle: How Good Jobs Transform Companies

Companies across industries are struggling to find and keep workers, because too many offer low-paying, stressful jobs that provide little chance for growt ...

BY Frances Almodovar

Blog Post

12.06.2023
Employment and Jobs

In the New Green Economy, Philanthropy Must Take a Smarter Approach to Creating Good Jobs

This piece originally appeared in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. For years, philanthropy has supported efforts to help low-income people get and keep ...

BY Maureen Conway & 1 more

Blog Post

07.26.2023