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The Job: Mobility and Digital Wallets
Colorado seeks to clear a bottleneck for behavioral health workers by creating an infrastructure for skills data. Also, foundations in the state tap a pay-it-forward fund for capital loans to training providers, and a new survey of…
The Job: Scale for Skills-First
An ed-tech giant’s ambitious moves into digital credentialing and learner records.
Bringing the ‘Hidden Infrastructure’ of Short-Term Training to Light
The Harvard Project on Workforce just launched the first-ever directory of the nation's short-term training providers.
Three big questions about AI and the future of work and learning
AI is set to transform education and work today and well into the future. We need to start asking tough questions right now, writes Alex Swartsel of JFF.
Is the ‘American Dream’ Holding Back Apprenticeship?
We talk with Ryan Craig, an investor and author of "Apprentice Nation," about why the US lags other countries on apprenticeship and what we could learn from them.
The Job: Turnkey Apprenticeships
Bakersfield College creates IT apprenticeships with state money and help from a global intermediary.
The Job: The Semiconductor Workforce
How the Commerce Department is looking to find and back training models that work.
As CHIPS Act Rolls Out, Commerce Takes on the R&D of Workforce Training
The administration is prepared to invest big in workforce training for the semiconductor industry, but first officials say they have to know what works.
The Job: Opportunity in Remote Work
SkillUp wants to help jobseekers without four-year degrees find remote jobs.