A handful of innovators have developed successful programs to help lift low-income workers into the middle class. Can their model become the norm? For Amber…
Work force experts see removing the four-year college degree filter for some jobs as key to increasing diversity and reducing inequality. Workers, they say, should…
Rachelle Katchenago of Menasha, Wis., lost her job as a call-center contract worker last year after the pandemic lockdowns took hold. No one was hiring….
The findings point to the potential of upward mobility for people without a college degree. For the past four decades, incomes rose for those with…
Economists, business leaders and labor experts have warned for years that a coming wave of automation and digital technology would upend the work force, destroying…
Greetings from the real economy. I’m Steve Lohr, a tech reporter for The Times, and I tend to focus on the effects of technology beyond…
America needs new tools for the timely measurement and monitoring of technology, jobs and skills to cope with the advance of artificial intelligence and automation,…