The effort to recover from the pandemic has exposed an interesting phenomenon: the assertion that people are dropping out of the labor force. Supporting this…
Posts published in “Workforce development”
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…
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…