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Panelists: Moderator: Christopher Cabaldon, Mayor of West Sacramento; Chair, USCM Jobs, Education and the Workforce Standing Committee Richard Berry, Mayor of Albuquerque Beth Cobert, CEO,…
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The Hill Zoë Baird President Trump has started to lay out his principles for a $1 trillion makeover of America’s roads, bridges, waterways, electrical grid,…
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Middle-skill jobs are important jobs: radiology technician, electrician, modern robot-heavy factory worker, emergency medical technician, wind turbine technician. In some cities, a construction boom is…
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Markle Foundation CEO and President Zoë Baird provided the keynote address at the Western Pathways Conference. Zoë discussed why everyone with a smartphone should be…
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Linkedin Influencer Zoë Baird Americans are facing a workers’ paradox. Job openings are at near-record high levels1. There are 5.7 million jobs across the country…
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Healthcare is one of today’s fastest-growing job sectors. As a populous older generation retires, the demand for skilled labor in this area will continue to…
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The labor market has changed and Americans need new skills and pathways to opportunity in the digital economy.This hearing will explore how America builds an…
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Beth Cobert, acting director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, was named chief executive of Skillful, a program formed by a partnership among the…
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SEATTLE—Last June, Martin Chibwe, a computer-science major, graduated from Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington, a liberal-arts campus with a hipster ethos that shuns letter…
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Beth Cobert, acting OPM director for the last year and a half of the Obama administration, has been named CEO of Denver-based Skillful, a foundation-sponsored…
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The Markle Foundation’s Skillful labor-market initiative is gaining a well-known workforce hand as its new strategic head. Beth Cobert, the former acting director of the…
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Beth Cobert, former acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, has been named CEO of the Markle Foundation’s Skillful program. Cobert will work with…
