How workforce partnerships can better reach America’s talent at scale — For too long, reskilling has been relegated to corner offices and reserved for those with VP and above titles. In fact, over 80 percent of employers’ reskilling dollars are spent on retaining mid- to late-career employees — rather than lifting up those in low-wage roles who most need pathways that…

Marissa Warren decided to go back into the workforce after being out for a decade. She went to her local one-stop American Job Center and signed up for a three-month training course to become a medical billing clerk. Only after successfully completing the program did she learn that the only…

Lessons from entrepreneurs and future of work leaders — Those of us who are embroiled in the “future of work” space are coming out of a tumultuous month, season, year. From a disfigured economy to emphatic calls for equity, our ways of working, earning and learning have rarely been left untouched. It’s a reminder to me that the only…

Takeaways from a U.S. Department of Labor listening tour — In an ideal world, our working lives would lead to fulfillment — but too many working Americans face insurmountable barriers when it comes to effectively caring for themselves, their families, and their communities. New data shows that just 39% of Americans would be able to cover an unexpected expense totaling…

Recently, Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce released a new report: Working to Learn: Despite a growing set of innovators, America struggles to connect education and career. The report identifies opportunities to create stronger, more equitable pathways from education to career, drawing on data from New Profit’s Postsecondary Initiative for Equity…

New Profit unveils top 15 ideas for an equitable future of work as the Future of Work Grand Challenge enters its implementation phase — In June 2020, New Profit, in partnership with XPRIZE, JFF, MIT Solve, and a coalition of partners, launched the Future of Work Grand Challenge. The name is not hyperbole; facing a growing skills gap and crippling student debt amidst a global pandemic, the Grand Challenge set out to rebuild the…

Dear Mayor Walsh, I am writing to you as the daughter of a factory worker who benefited greatly from the protections provided by the union. I now spend my career working to ensure that every worker has dignity in work and access to a living wage. It is a great…

Last week, over 750,000 people filed unemployment claims. As widely reported, many of these jobs are not coming back. So where are Americans going to look for employment? This is a question facing the over 12 million individuals searching for jobs. In addition to government stimulus payments, there is another…

Applying worker-centricity to policy and philanthropy — “However, what is not being discussed — and should — is how the digital divide undermines workers’ ability to organize and build power, which is especially critical during crises in our digitally connected world. We must close the digital divide for all workers if there is to be any meaningful…