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…
I was late for breakfast with Colorado’s governor, John Hickenlooper. We were in Manhattan, on the same September day that President Trump gave a speech…
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…
Several new job boards, including Opportunity@Work and Skillful, use this approach to match workers with employers, job coaches and training programs based on skills instead…
The skills-based concept is gaining momentum, with nonprofit organizations, schools, state governments and companies, typically in partnerships, beginning to roll out such efforts. On Wednesday,…
