This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. African governments, corporations, and development groups want to build a single digital market on the continent — a unified space aimed at boosting integration and development. A key organization behind…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. JOBS, which operated in Portland, Oregon in the mid to late 1990s, was a mandatory welfare-to-work program for single-parent welfare recipients whose children were over one year in age. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Building and keeping a highly effective nonprofit staff is really tricky. The recently released 2015 Nonprofit Employment Practices Survey from NonprofitHR found that 50% of nonprofits surveyed plan to add new positions in 2015, compared to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jane Friedhoff is a riot grrrl game developer. What does that mean? She creates power fantasies for women through the joy of unadulterated play. Her latest title, Lost Wage Rampage, essentially reappropriates the hyper-masculinity of Grand…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Less than two weeks after President Trump’s State of the Union in which he declared that “American heart, American hands, and American grit” would rebuild the country’s infrastructure, workers barely…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How many times have you seen a report where today’s top tech companies admit to struggling to recruit top diverse talent? Only 2% of Google’s workforce is black, and at Twitter, just 3%…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The proportion of U.S. adults in paid work has declined in recent decades. While the fall in male employment gets the most attention, female work rates are declining too. A new NBER…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Go to overlooked places: Love of place drives the desire of entrepreneurs to solve local problems. Solve real problems: The best entrepreneurs solve problems they understand from their own lived experience.…
Every year, around 670,000 students earn associate degrees from community colleges—yet only about 32,000 job postings in 2016 specifically asked for an associate of arts (A.A.) degree. Five years after…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The January jobs report suggests the nearly nine-year-old economic expansion remains plenty capable of generating solid job growth: 200,000 last month and an average of 192,000 over the past three months. More…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As an impact investor and philanthropic advisor, I have the unique opportunity to see firsthand the unprecedented pace of change happening in cities around the world. From Shanghai to Paris,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Far too much of the chatter about jobs and technology is built around static analysis. Robot workers replace human workers. Assuming much smarter machines — such as self-driving vehicles —…