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Survey: Employers with Job Openings Should Look at Applicants’ Skills, Not College Degrees

You’ve seen the job description before: Growing company seeks dedicated professional for exciting midcareer position. Must have strong leadership skills, excellent written and oral communication…

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The Future of Work is Already Here

Headlines, white papers and studies say AI and robotics will trigger massive job losses in the future. But the technologies that we have today —…

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Digital Blindspot: A Report by the Rework America Business Network.

Read any report on the future of work and you will likely hear about the looming automation of large swaths of jobs and growing gaps…

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Polis’ Free All-day Kindergarten Lets Parents Re-enter the Workforce. How Can We Help Them?

In May, Gov. Jared Polis signed a bipartisan bill into law funding full-day kindergarten for Coloradan kids starting this fall — a transformational investment in…

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6 States Receive Grants, State-specific Data as Part of Training Initiative

Six states will receive financial, policy and technical assistance for designing education and training programs for workers over the next 18 months thanks to a…

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Surprising Ways the Skillful Indiana Governor’s Coaching Corps Changed My Life

Skillful Indiana Governor’s Coaching Corps (Skillful Coaching Corps) is a dream come true for me. When I learned about the coaching corps at a monthly…

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The Markle Foundation’s Rework America and Skillful Initiatives are Promoting Adoption of Skills Necessary for the Workforce to Thrive in a Digital Economy

In a Nutshell: For nearly 100 years, the Markle Foundation has sought to improve the lives of Americans by addressing crucial problems through education and…

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New Workforce Initiative Helping Firms Get Smarter with Hiring

Skillful is billed as a workforce development initiative from the New York-based Markle Foundation. But Skillful Indiana’s executive director is adamant that the organization is…

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Texas Economy Depends on More Skilled Workers Who Can Adapt to New Technologies

Texas, like the nation, has more job openings than unemployed people, and while that shows up in an impressively low unemployment rate, it’s a real…

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Watch Communications and Microsoft Announce Partnership to Bring Broadband Internet to Indiana, Ohio and Illinois

REDMOND, Wash. – July 9, 2019 – On Tuesday, Watch Communications and Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement aimed at closing the broadband gap, and the…

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We Need to Give U.S. Workers More Real Power over Their Futures

Even in the midst of a historically strong job market, jarring economic transformation is leading presidential candidates to be defined as capitalists or socialists. If…