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Workforce Development

Shoes To Walk the Talk: Four Steps for Workforce Systems to Advance Our Own Workforce

Can we see a future where the workforce development field is more reflective of the change it seeks to cultivate?

BY Sheila Maguire & 1 more

Blog Post

08.28.2024
Employment and Jobs

Job Quality Newsletter — Special Labor Day Edition

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

Blog Post

09.04.2023
Employment and Jobs

Making Labor Day Count for Workers

To find out if our economy is working for working people, we need more complete data — and better questions about the data we already have.

BY Maureen Conway

Blog Post

09.01.2023
Workforce Development

A Good Jobs Strategy for Workforce Professionals

Despite their focus on job quality, workforce staff often endure bad jobs themselves. In other words, “The cobbler’s children have no shoes.”

BY Sheila Maguire & 1 more

Blog Post

09.01.2023
Employment and Jobs

Why this Labor Day Is different

Workers across a wide breadth of sectors are striking for increased wages — but also for dignity, equity, and a say in how new technologies are deployed.√

BY Thomas Kochan

Of Interest

09.01.2023
Employment and Jobs

Let's Choose to Improve Job Quality

Job quality is a choice, and we can choose to make it better.

BY Maureen Conway

Blog Post

09.03.2021
Economic Development

This Labor Day Let’s Reinvent Essential Work

While a tiny virus upended our daily lives, essential workers continued to meet the needs of others despite the risks and burdens.

BY Maureen Conway

Blog Post

09.04.2020
Employment and Jobs

The Future of Work for Working Families

We need to work toward a common goal of good jobs. Here is what's at stake for working families.

BY Maureen Conway

Blog Post

09.02.2019