This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “It is unclear whether child-care issues will prevent women from returning to employment as the economy recovers,” wrote economist Betsey Stevenson (University of Michigan) in a July 2020 essay for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even before the pandemic shunted them into online learning, many high school students failed to see a connection between their work in the classroom and their real-world futures. The rare…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nineteen million Americans—including one in three Black men—have a felony conviction, a formidable barrier to integration into society and the workforce. This tragically leads to high rates of unemployment and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than a year into the coronavirus recession, unemployment in the United States remains high, and there are 8.4 million fewer jobs than prior to the pandemic. As the U.S. economy begins…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One day not long after the 2016 US presidential election, a white senior colleague asked me—the only Black tenure-line faculty in my college at that time—how Black people felt realizing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and, most recently, Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo, are a reminder of how far America has to go to remediate systemic harms…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 crisis cost women around the world $800 billion in lost income in 2020, Oxfam said on Thursday, as it demanded steps to tackle gender inequality. Women, overrepresented in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women journalists and journalists of color aren’t paid as well as their white male counterparts in 14 Gannett newsrooms, and journalists in unionized newsrooms are paid better than those in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For decades, Saudi Arabia had one of the lowest female labor force participation rates in the world. In 2018, the share of Saudi women who had a job or were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you enter a garment factory in India, or any part of the world for that matter, you will see that the workforce is starkly female. The Indian textile and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Better Employment and Training Strategies Taskforce (BETS) is a coalition of more than 40 leading practitioners and experts working to modernize the United States’ outdated patchwork of workforce policies.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Strengthening the ability of all families to manage their finances and marshal available resources is critical to achieving an equitable recovery from COVID-19. So, as we close out Financial Capability Month,…