In northern Nevada, east of Reno, a mountainous desert unfolds like a pop-up book. Wild horses on hillsides stand still as toys. Green-grey sagebrush paints the sandy land, which is…
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In this report we present strategies to help increase workforce participation of working-age women in urban India.
Read the full article at: www.fsg.org
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We often use catch-all acronyms and shorthand like “POC,” “BIPOC,” and “Black and brown people” to describe experiences of discrimination and …
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An article in Politico looks at the gains and losses—actual and potential—for lower-wage workers in the current economic climate. Katrin Kark, LISC’s director of workforce innovations, who is quoted in the piece, cautions that increased wages don’t suffice to stabilize finances or create economic…
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Resources and tools for funders to give more flexibly and further support their movement partners.
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The promise of economic stability that comes with higher education has not materialized for Black women, who are paid less than their counterparts even after earning a degree.
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AI advancements are outpacing the current skills of workers, requiring considerable adaptation on the part of industrial-era employees.
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With a cyclical and capital-intensive copper industry, landlocked Zambia faces a number of hurdles to economic diversification and job creation even as the labor force has grown rapidly. The headline…
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School leaders across the country offer new evidence on why learning has yet to rebound as anticipated: ‘outdated and ineffective’ instruction.
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The U.S. labor market is on track to hit a milestone this month or next: It will have recovered all of the jobs lost in the pandemic recession. That is…
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Students in American K-12 schools are increasingly diverse. But that diversity is often missing in the teachers at the front of classrooms. That’s …
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The recent heat wave over the U.S. South and northern Mexico was made 5°F warmer than it would have been normally, due to climate change.