Is the US economy overheating? Yesterday, the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill published a discussion between its Executive Director and its Chief…
Posts published in “Workforce development”
Yesterday, I wrote about the tech sector’s need for a better approach to talent acquisition. The tech sector creates more than a million entry-level jobs…
I read an interesting article recently on tech employers, and what the author termed the “opportunity gap” in the United States. His point is that…
According to a 2020 survey conducted by Gallup, nearly three-fourths of Americans consider themselves part of the middle class. Realistically, however, the middle class has…
Almost a year ago, I wrote about Craig, CO, a coal mining town that’s facing the closure of a coal-fired power plant and the coal…
The City of Anaheim had a big budget problem last summer. The city normally collects more than $160M annually in hotel taxes. Hotel taxes feed…
The pandemic has made it clear that community colleges have a lot of competition for enrollment. Recent high school graduates are making other plans, leaving…
A report released yesterday by Opportunity@Work suggests that half of the US workforce has experienced downward mobility as a result of not having a bachelor’s…
A couple of months ago, I wrote about the inability of community college administrators to understand or appreciate the ungentle art of competition. I wrote…
Real wages – increases in income minus inflation – provide a revealing look at why community college enrollment is dropping. And until the “real wage…