Imagine a job-creation initiative in which an employee with just a high school diploma has a realistic chance of more than doubling his or her original salary while working for the same employer. Now imagine that the careers this initiative supports also provide some of...
Despite stated commitments by many to support well-paying manufacturing jobs, a fundamental challenge persists: matching workers with those jobs and the career pathways they provide. In fact, industry experts predict that while manufacturing employers will need to fill nearly 3.5 million jobs by 2025, as...
Finds Positive Correlation Between Employment Rates and Key Measures of Opportunity Opportunity Nation’s latest report, Retail’s Opportunity: Exploring the Industry’s Impact on People and Places uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Opportunity Nation’s Opportunity Index, among other sources, to analyze the industry’s impact...
While the efforts to get girls interested in tech and to get women enrolled in college computer science courses and majors are important, there is so much we can do today to get more women into jobs in the IT field. For much of our history...
In order for the United States to enable widespread economic opportunity and mobility, it needs to create a transparent and cohesive jobs marketplace. Successful marketplaces are built on shared operating systems. Consider your computer’s operating system and how it enables new applications and entirely new industries...
In this new era of rapid technological advancement and a swiftly changing jobs landscape, it is more important than ever that we work together to ensure that members of our budding workforce (along with those seeking to grow or change their careers) are educated and...
Most Americans will agree that the youth unemployment rate—currently over 16% for 16-to-24-year-olds, not including underemployment—is unacceptably high. Yet, it’s much harder to find consensus on the reasons why more young people aren’t finding meaningful, sustainable work. Hope Street Group just released a paper I wrote...
In the United States, Jobs & Workforce efforts have historically been conducted in silos, with limited collaboration and innovation across sectors and stakeholder groups. Hope Street Group believes that the best way to foster high-quality solutions to Jobs & Workforce issues is to improve information-sharing...
There was a very intriguing cover article on the future of jobs in the January 18th edition of The Economist. Here’s the breakdown, in case you haven’t seen it: Rapid technological advancements will radically transform the future of jobs in a way not seen since...
This past December, Hope Street Group held a working session with the HR Policy Association and leaders in the policy and private sector, including U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and top HR executives from Boeing and Gap Inc., to discuss the steps...