Quality Employment

With a cyclical and capital-intensive copper industry, landlocked Zambia faces a number of hurdles to economic diversification and job creation even as the labor force has grown rapidly. The headline…

School leaders across the country offer new evidence on why learning has yet to rebound as anticipated: ‘outdated and ineffective’ instruction.

The U.S. labor market is on track to hit a milestone this month or next: It will have recovered all of the jobs lost in the pandemic recession. That is…

Students in American K-12 schools are increasingly diverse. But that diversity is often missing in the teachers at the front of classrooms. That’s …

The recent heat wave over the U.S. South and northern Mexico was made 5°F warmer than it would have been normally, due to climate change.

But as consumers increasingly call for educations that lead more directly to jobs, trends in other countries suggest that this could change, especially with the adoption of a new word, “pracademic,” to describe them.

Lewis: What schools can do to help student-parents earn a degree and get a leg up on the socioeconomic ladder.

As COVID and other factors decimate nursing profession, a Providence high school trains students to start their careers as young as 14.

Industrial policies are more effective at supporting and lifting job quality when they are accompanied by strong collective bargaining laws and institutions.

The UPS strike will be the largest single-employer strike in U.S. history. It could frame worker power as an extreme heat solution.

Many domestic violence survivors qualify for unemployment insurance, can take time off to go to court or can ask for workplace accommodations. But few even know those laws exist and fewer employers are following them.

The Washington Post graph, from OSHA data In a world that’s getting hotter, laws don’t protect most workers who are subject to extreme heat,…