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"Employer engagement” is the current battle cry of funders and policymakers as they urge workforce practitioners to become ever more “market driven”—meeting the needs of employers and, in the process, providing lasting benefits to low-income jobseekers. On the battlefield, however, the results have been disappointing. Keep Reading > Source: Pinkerton Papers

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

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

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

A lmost one-fifth of American workers have bad jobs. They endure low wages, poor benefits, schedules that change with little—if any—notice, and few opportunities for advancement. Keep reading> Source: Harvard Business Review