Workforce Development

FILE PHOTO: A researcher plants a semiconductor on an interface board during a research work to design and develop a semiconductor product at Tsinghua Unigroup research centre in Beijing, China, February 29, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

Smarter immigration policies could help alleviate the semiconductor shortage

Greg Wright, Dany Bahar, and Ian Seyal

June 17, 2022

National Science Foundation's seal on building in Washington, D.C.

A new federal program goes local to accelerate regional innovation

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Laundromat workers walk out the job to protest the current working conditions. On the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25, 2020 a group of seven laundromat workers in New York City, confronted their employer at Wash Supply in Manhattan, alleging abuses of labor law and labor rights. These women have been designated essential workers and their labor makes it possible for people on Manhattans Upper West Side to have their clothes cleaned. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

As the jobs recovery nears completion, it’s time to talk about job quality

Makada Henry-Nickie, Regina Seo, and Anthony Barr

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Man looks at code

TechTank Podcast Episode 42: A conversation on improving the STEM pipeline with UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski

Nicol Turner Lee

Monday, April 18, 2022

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America’s young people face a grim future. A Civilian Climate Corps can help.

Thursday, January 27, 2022

A staff member interacts with China's first artificial intelligent (AI) robot Xiao Ai at the State Grid Yangzhou Municipal Electric Power Company in Yangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, 15 July 2019.China's first artificial intelligent (AI) robot Xiao Ai put into use at the State Grid Yangzhou Municipal Electric Power Company in Yangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, 15 July 2019. The robot, which capable of speech recognition, dialog manager systems, real-time communication and image recognition, had an automatic perception of equipment abnormal in distribution network and command workers to repair. Xiao Ai was able to increase efficiency of repairing work.No Use China. No Use France.

Understanding the impact of automation on workers, jobs, and wages

Harry J. Holzer

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Children play in a daycare

Supporting families supports the economy: Social nets are economic foundations

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Peg Burchinal

Monday, September 27, 2021

UI application

Millions of workers will lose their safety net this Labor Day if Congress doesn’t act

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

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July’s promising jobs report hides the challenges of left-behind communities

Robert Maxim and Mark Muro

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Black teenager

July’s jobs report shows Black teens struggling with the highest unemployment rate

Kristen Broady, Tiffany N. Ford, and Carl Romer

Monday, August 9, 2021