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Doing Well and Doing Good: Pioneer Employers Discover Profits and Deliver Opportunity for Frontline Workers

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A new study of business practices reveals powerful ways to create strategic and financial gains. Lower-wage workers, when supported by effective policies, boost productivity, quality, innovation, and revenues from new markets. Keep Reading > Source: The Hitachi Foundation
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Invest for Continuous Improvement - Structuring Clear Career Ladders

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Employers often have trouble recruiting and retaining skilled workers, while employees seek ways to advance to higher skilled and better paid positions. Developing clear career ladders is a way to meet both needs, and can result in a more engaged, knowledgeable, and productive workforce. Keep Reading > Source: The Hitachi Foundation
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Connecting Young Adults to Employment - Results from a National Survey of Service Providers

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America's youngest workers are facing their most dire employment prospects in recent history. Keep Reading > Source: The Aspen Institute
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Dismissed by Degrees - How degree inflation is undermining U.S. competitiveness and hurting America’s middle clas

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Degree inflation—the rising demand for a four-year college degree for jobs that previously did not require one—is a substantive and widespread phenomenon that is making the U.S. labor market more inefficient. Keep Reading > Source: Harvard Business School
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Communities That Work Partnership: Playbook

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There is growing conviction that new ways of developing skills, expanding access to jobs, and encouraging the creation of quality jobs are crucial to an economy that works for everyone, including businesses, workers, and communities. Keep Reading > Source: The Aspen Institute
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A Conversation with Carrie Gleason of Center for Popular Democracy

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Carrie Gleason, Director of Fair Workweek Initiative with Center for Popular Democracy, talks about Fair Workweek Initiative and Retail Action Project. Keep Reading > Source: The Aspen Institute
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