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Buffalo, New York: Building Off A Breakthrough

A “New Buffalo” is emerging, and civic optimism is riding high in western New York. In 2014, the city and region marked the reversal of a 50-year decline in population amidst a burst of economic revitalization, including the creation of new jobs in health care, academia, research, and clean energy. Looking to harness this momentum is the Buffalo Niagara Regional Workforce Coalition, a multiyear, multisector collective effort that has brought together key regional leaders from business, philanthropy, government, and education.

BY Workforce Strategies Initiative

Publication

08.31.2016

Workforce Development

Houston, Texas: Developing Prototypes for Workforce Development Strategies

Greater Houston is the nation’s fourth largest metro economy and has enjoyed four years of extraordinary growth, creating more than 480,000 jobs since the bottom of the recession—three jobs for every one lost. But this growth has also intensified employers’ struggle to fill key occupations, particularly in middle-skill careers and professions. UpSkill Houston, and the local leaders involved in the Communities that Work Partnership (CTWP), have adopted a series of innovative prototypes to speed workforce innovation and to scale what works to meet the demand for these middle-skill jobs.

BY Workforce Strategies Initiative

Publication

08.31.2016

Workforce Development

Arizona: Understanding Skill Needs of Technology Occupations

Despite a positive growth outlook for IT in Arizona, there is local concern that the state lacks qualified workers to support the future of IT and that talent is leaving the area for professional opportunities elsewhere. As a result, in 2014 the IT Sector Partnership was launched with the intention of engaging a wide range of stakeholders to address the state’s workforce gap. The partnership aimed to define the challenges facing employers—both within the IT industry and in other sectors employing IT workers—and then develop and implement strategies to meet those needs.

BY Workforce Strategies Initiative

Publication

08.31.2016

Workforce Development

The Freelance Economy and Workforce System Meet in the Bay Area

The “on-demand” or “1099” economy is reengineering how millions of Americans work, and California’s San Francisco Bay Area is at the forefront of these changes. Four members of the Bay Area team participating in the Communities that Work Partnership (CTWP) set out to understand this challenge and explore how the public workforce development system—the one-stop job centers, community colleges, and publicly funded community-based training programs—could meet the skills needs of freelancers, and the businesses that hire them, in the region’s 1099 economy.

BY Workforce Strategies Initiative

Publication

08.31.2016

Workforce Development

New York City: Partnering to Improve Domestic Workers’ Job Quality

The New York City Communities that Work Partnership is built on a long-standing collaboration among organizations that worked together to pass the New York State Domestic Workers Bill of Rights (BOR). The New York City partners are aware of how challenging it will be—given the uniquely private nature of domestic work—to enforce new labor regulations. Thus their work has expanded to consider how they can address challenges that affect both workers and their employers through workforce development strategies.

BY Workforce Strategies Initiative

Publication

08.31.2016

Workforce Development

Improving Immigrant Access To Workforce Services

How can workforce development and immigrant-serving organizations work together?

BY Vickie Choitz, & 1 more

Publication

08.25.2016

Workforce Development

A New WIOA Measure Deserves A New Way Of Measuring

What is an optimal way to measure the public workforce system’s effectiveness in serving employers? The US departments of Labor and Education have been g ...

BY Maureen Conway & 1 more

Publication

08.01.2016

Workforce Development

Implementation Of Accelerating Opportunity

Accelerating Opportunity aims to increase the ability of students with low basic skills to earn valued occupational credentials, obtain a well-paying job, and sustain a rewarding career.

BY Maureen Conway & 5 more

Publication

05.01.2016

Workforce Development

Restore the Promise of Work

Restore the Promise of Work: Reducing Inequality by Raising the Floor and Building Ladders encourages a broader community beyond workforce development to engage in initiatives that redesign work to expand economic opportunity and address growing social, political, and economic inequality

BY Maureen Conway & 1 more

Publication

04.13.2016

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