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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

Employer Insights on Digital Credentials and Skills Profiles: Lessons Learned

UpSkill America, an initiative of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program, conducted the qualitative study on behalf of Western Governors University. The report describes what employers said they need to make better use of these Learning and Employment Records and makes recommendations for credential providers.

BY Haley Glover

Publication

10.14.2024
Employment and Jobs

A Hidden Workforce: Prison Labor, Human Rights, and the Legacy of Slavery (Video)

In this webinar, we explore the history and conditions of work for incarcerated people and ideas for creating more humane and dignified work for those behind bars.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Video

10.11.2024
Employment and Jobs

Piloting Innovation: Launching LERs in Arizona

Description Karsten’s Ace Hardware includes five stores in the Phoenix area, with about 120 frontline employees. With a well-designed and highly used in ...

BY Haley Glover

Publication

10.10.2024
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
Employment and Jobs

Empowering the Workforce: Roy Bahat on the Future of Work

In this conversation with Workonomics’ Nilesh Kavthekar, Roy Bahat — head of Bloomberg Beta, chair of the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, ...

BY Roy Bahat & 1 more

Blog Post

10.02.2024
Employment and Jobs

Announcing the 2024 Class of Education and Career Mobility Fellows

In partnership with Guild, UpSkill America is proud to support the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship. We would like to announce the 2024/25 fellows and the second cohort.

BY UpSkill America & 1 more

Blog Post

10.01.2024
Employment and Jobs

Resource Roundup: What we are Reading - Issue 3, Sept 2024

What are we reading this September? The contributions of organized labor to American society extend well beyond the establishment of Labor Day as a federal holiday. The eight-hour day, minimum wage, and workplace health and safety laws, among other protections, are the result of relentless worker advocacy. But the job isn’t done.

BY Maxwell Johnson

Blog Post

09.24.2024
Employment and Jobs

The Fellowship Effect: Lessons in Success from the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship

But can I brag a minute about these Fellows? Because we may have provided the packaging, but THEY are the gift.

BY Haley Glover

Blog Post

09.11.2024
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