Incorporating labor and workforce training standards into this historic climate policy will ensure that the transition to a clean energy economy is built with good jobs. A worker performs a quality ...

Nursing instruction at San Jacinto College in Houston. The college is among those that allow students to accumulate credits toward a degree while in high school. (Photo: San Jacinto College) Last ...

Federal legislation must focus on job quality to reduce gaps in education and lead to good jobs. An iron worker climbs a ladder at a terminal for a new people mover at Los Angeles International ...

Not everyone takes a traditional route to a college degree that will prepare them for the workforce. John Yang talks with Nicole Smith of Georgetown University and Beth Cobert of the Markle Foundation ...

In March, Democrats in the House of Representatives advanced a bill that would increase the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25, to $15.00, and several 2020 presidential candidates have backed the ...

LOWELL — Project Learn and the Middlesex 3 Coalition recently brought leaders in government, education, and industry together for “Pathways to Possibility: From Classroom to Career,” a discussion at ...

As the United States continues to recover from the worse recession, economic growth is hindered because the skills of today's workers have not kept up with the requirements of current and future jobs.

When Sekou Kaalund started a job as a 22-year-old in New York, rent was so expensive that he contemplated ending his 401(k) savings enrollment plan so he could get more in his paycheck. He was advised ...

Atlanta’s economy is growing rapidly. In 2018, employers created 58,400 new jobs, and the workforce increased by 2.8 percent. Demand for new employees also jumped, with more than half a million job ...

Anwer Alkuhaly emigrated from Yemen in 2015 and like many new arrivals, he navigated an unfamiliar culture in Minnesota to find a job that matched his skills. He contacted Project for Pride in Living, ...

Few regions have matched East Asia and Pacific’s (EAP) economic dynamism—or its success in creating more and better jobs. Over the past twenty years, the region created a net total of 131 million new ...

As the United States continues to recover from the worse recession, economic growth is hindered because the skills of today's workers have not kept up with the requirements of current and future jobs.