Workforce Development

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The Avenue

Grocery workers are keeping Americans alive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what they need.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Jeanne Bonner, who made just $2 in tips one day last week as compared to $80 during a normal shift, works behind the bar at Latina Restaurant & Pizzeria near the General Motors Flint Truck Assembly where union auto workers are on strike in Flint, Michigan, U.S., October 9, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

The Avenue

COVID-19 will upend retail, but there are steps we can take to save it

Tracy Hadden Loh

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

A worker looks out from a near empty restaurant on North Avenue during the coronavirus outbreak in New Rochelle, New York, U.S., March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

The Avenue

The robots are ready as the COVID-19 recession spreads

Mark Muro, Robert Maxim, and Jacob Whiton

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Talented female architect teacher helping students with project for university coursework correcting mistakes in drawings and answer question during meeting in library with wifi zone and gadgets

Report

State policies to promote shared prosperity in cities

Solomon Greene, Alan Berube, John D. Ratliff, and Aaron Shroyer

March 26, 2020

Reports

Delta Airlines planes and a British Airways plane (2nd L) are pictured at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, on the day Delta CEO Ed Bastian told employees he was cutting 40% of capacity in the coming months, the largest in the airline's history, in addition to pursuing aid, in SeaTac, Washington, U.S. March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

Report

We should bail out airlines during the coronavirus pandemic—but on taxpayers’ terms

Adie Tomer and Joseph W. Kane

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

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Technology & Innovation

No matter which way you look at it, tech jobs are still concentrating in just a few cities

March 3, 2020

A roadmap for growing good jobs

Report

A Roadmap for Growing Good Jobs: Background on data and methodology

Marcela Escobari and Ian Seyal

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

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Workforce Development

The role of employers in addressing the skills gap

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Friday, December 6, 2019

A worker is seen in the workshop of a factory manufacturing medical devices in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China July 27, 2018. Picture taken July 27, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. - RC1FA7C86700

Workforce Development

How a medical tech company partners with higher education to build career ladders

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Friday, December 6, 2019

Blog Posts

Barber Adan Covarrubias, 28, stands behind his chair, prior to California's Governor Gavin Newsom’s effective immediately statewide "stay at home order", in the face of the fast-spreading pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19), at the Chateau Barber Shop in Napa, California, U.S. March 19, 2020. Picture taken March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

The Avenue

Cities and states are on the front lines of the economic battle against COVID-19

Joseph Parilla and Reniya Dinkins

Friday, March 20, 2020

An Amtrak train attendant walks across the tracks at the Holdrege station after exiting the 5 California Zephyr Amtrak train in Holdrege, Nebraska June 13, 2008. U.S. government-owned passenger rail company Amtrak wields improper and coercive regulatory power over private freight carriers under a law that lets it help set rules that competing railroads must follow, a federal appeals court ruled on April 29, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Lott/File Photo

The Avenue

COVID-19 is hurting many industries and workers, but could it help trade and logistics?

Joseph W. Kane and Adie Tomer

Thursday, March 19, 2020

A worker delivers packages following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

The Avenue

COVID-19 puts America’s low-wage workforce in an even worse position

Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman

Thursday, March 19, 2020

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A security officer keeps watch in front of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign at the annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai, China September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song - RC192A130D00

Podcast Episode

AI will affect better-paid workers, but will it displace them?

Mark Muro and Fred Dews

Friday, December 20, 2019

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Podcast Episode

What does the GM auto workers’ strike tell us about the strength of unions?

Joseph W. Kane and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 25, 2019

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Advancing opportunity in California’s Inland Empire

Rachel Barker, Marek Gootman, Chad Shearer, and Fred Dews

Friday, June 28, 2019

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