By Zoë Baird and Brad Smith Today we announced a three year partnership between The Markle Foundation and Microsoft Philanthropies. Microsoft is investing more than…
Linkedin Influencer Zoë Baird Americans are facing a workers’ paradox. Job openings are at near-record high levels1. There are 5.7 million jobs across the country…
Linkedin Influencer Zoë Baird For decades we’ve been telling people to get a college degree, and they’ll be able to compete for the growth jobs…
By Zoë Baird So many Americans have great skills, but for too long we’ve valued the college degree as the primary path to success even…
By John Hickenlooper We’ve worked hard to make Colorado the best place in the country to start, grow or work for a business. Making it…
By Zoë Baird On Thursday, the top 10 highest-polling candidates in the Republican presidential field will take the stage in Cleveland, Ohio for the first…
I met Dan Wagner, who was the Chief Analytics Officer for the Obama campaign, in 2014 as part of a Markle Foundation project called Rework…
By Zoë Baird America is in the midst of the biggest economic transformation in the past 100 years. Technology and globalization are fundamentally altering nearly…
The challenge before us is how to make sure everyone has the opportunity to succeed in a rapidly changing 21st century economy.