Community college administrators have been content with the knowledge that their classrooms fill when the economy tanks. Sadly, nothing is as simple as it looks.…
Posts published in “Workforce development”
Yesterday, I wrote about the labor participation rate of women in the United States. About 1.5M women who had been working at the onset of…
For the last couple of days, I’ve been writing about working women, and how the pandemic has affected them. During the pandemic, a lot of…
Much has been written about the impact of the pandemic on working mothers. During the pandemic, women exited the workforce in extraordinary numbers. The assumption…
Two interesting articles published recently. One suggested that labor shortages will plague employers for years to come, based on a report released by Indeed.com. The…
California’s steep decline in community college enrollment is still making news. Since the Great Recession, California’s two-year colleges have shed nearly a million students. Administrators…
The University of Wisconsin has announced that it will cease offering degree programs at its Richland Center campus. The decision raises an issue regarding the…
Newly published MIT research shows the impact of automation on less educated workers. According to Daron Acemoglu, a professor of Labor Economics at MIT, automation…
If you pay attention to what is happening in Ypsilanti, you will find an increasingly common query regarding rental housing costs: “Does anyone know of…
According to new data released by the US Census Bureau, workers in high-wage jobs are the least likely to quit. That sounds like a no-brainer,…