Giving Compass’ Take: • PACE evaluated the Year Up program, offering technical training and internships to low-income, urban youth, and found the program achieved high levels on multiple measures. • How…
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Giving Compass’ Take: • MDRC released a report on how New York municipalities, community, and workforce development organizations can now access state UI wage data and what opportunities and challenges…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Andy Van Kleunen, writing The Hechinger Report, discusses why higher education institutions should understand and value the needs of working families enrolled in college courses. • Community…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • The past five decades – spanning from the time when the Silent Generation (today, in their 70s and 80s) was entering adulthood to the adulthood of today’s…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for The Brookings Institution, Andre M. Perry highlights the disparities between black and white unemployment and explains that black unemployment has reached an even higher level than see…
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Giving Compass’ Take: • OPRE and MDRC evaluated the Young Adult Internship Program in New York and found that early outcomes indicated higher labor force participation and wages for participants over the…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • At the event Quality Jobs for All: What Would It Take?, a series of discussions led many panelists to discover multiple vehicles for providing high-quality jobs…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Liberal arts schools are creating skills-mapping projects to help students understand how to prepare for the future workforce, and trends are pointing toward a “skills-based movement.”…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: · With the demands of the workforce changing, Rachelle Dene Poth discusses the best way educators can prepare to teach students the skills they need for their future.…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Pacific Standard, Tom Jacobs explains how overconfidence in the upper- and middle-class people is often perceived as competence and capability by employers, limiting the potential…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Megan Conn explains why Mississippi jobs are particularly vulnerable to automation and shares ways to improve long-term outcomes for employment in the state. • How can funders…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Marissa Wesely and Linda Midgley discuss how technology and automation present significant risks for the future of the female workforce, but also opportunities to help women reach…