Articles
- Walmart Foundation Awards $4.2 Million for Community College Jobs Initiative – 2/5/14
- Reopening an Employment Door to the Young
- Can Underfunded Community Colleges Provide More Job Training? by Claudio Sanchez – NPR Morning Edition, 2/12, 2014
- Crossing Borders and Changing Lives, Lured by Higher State Minimum Wages – NYT, by Kirk Johnson, 2/15/14
- MACNY Newsletter – March 2014
- Is Algebra Necessary? by Andrew Hacker, Published: July 28, 2012
- “Older workers in CNY have a much harder time finding a job after being laid off” – The Post-Standard, 11/16/11
- “Life after NPG: Reinventing careers” – The Post-Standard, 12/22/11
- Employment in New York State – February 2014 Newsletter
- To Fill Skills Gap in U.S., Schools Look Abroad – NPR Morning Edition, March 19, 2014
- Lessons from Munich for America’s Youth Employment Crisis – Brookings, March 31, 2014
- Skills Don’t Pay the Bills – NYT, November 20, 2012
- IS the American Middle Class Losing Out to China and India? – NYT, 4/2/2014
- How Access to Cars Could Help the Poor – Atlantic Cities, 4/1/14
- Jobs, Skills and Zombies – NYT, March 30, 2014
- U.S. Adults Fare Poorly in a Study of Skills By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Published: October 8, 2013
- Stubborn Skills Gap in America’s Work Force By EDUARDO PORTER, Published: October 8, 2013
- Apprenticeships Held Create Jobs. So Why Are They In Decline?
- For Infrastructure’s Sake, America Needs Skilled Workers
- Training for Success: A Policy to Expand Apprenticeships in the US – Published: December, 2013
- A Push to Give Steadier Shifts to Part-Timers – By GREENHOUSE; July 15, 2014
- Trade Academy for Teens
- Can’t Get a Job From an Algorithm, or So It Seems as Hot Resumes Go Nowhere Fast
- Still Searching: Job Vacancies and STEM Skills
- Unemployment and the “Skills Mismatch” Story: Overblow and Unpersuasive – Brookings/Opinion; Published: July 29, 2014
- Importing the German Approach to Career Building
- The Case For Hiring ‘Under-Qualified’ Employees
- Revealed: Rising Inequality Kills American Jobs
- Strengths First, Skills Later – go to page 70
- In South Carolina, A Program That Makes Apprenticeships Work
- The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind
- Employers Will Have to Raise Wages. They Just Don’t Know It Yet.
Reports
- Jobs Program Aids Fortune500 and Underprivileged Youth
- Time for the U.S. to Reskill? What the Survey of Adult Skills Says
- Putting Students First: Final Action Plan New NY Education Reform Commission – January 2014
- Vocational Education 2.0: Employers Hold the Key to Better Career Training – Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
- Syracuse City School District_Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force Career and Technical Education December 2012
- Career and Technical Education: Five Ways That Pay – Georgetown University, September 2012
- The Future of Work: How Should We Prepare for the New Economy
Websites
- Skills to Pay the Bills: How education and skills relate to employment outcomes
- CNY STEM Hub
- PBS Newshour – The Soft Skills That Make Shaquilla Just As Employable As Shannon
- Built to Build Pre-Apprenticeship
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