It shouldn’t be surprising that one of the key messages that resonated with Bernie Sanders’ supporters during the Democratic primary season was the Vermont senator’s proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Sanders voters, after all, skewed quite a bit younger than other candidates — and younger Americans are more impacted
The base was enormous — far bigger than it had to be, given current national security needs. It was also sitting on top of some potentially prime commercial real estate — right in the middle of an urban area with one of the fastest growing economies in the nation. That realization led U.S. Air Force
The best indicator of whether a person will earn a college degree also appears to be the hardest to change: For nearly half a century, people who come from families in the top quarter of the income strata have made up more than 50 percent of those earning bachelor’s degrees at U.S. universities. That’s according
An overwhelming majority of Americans of every demographic group say it is “very important” for adults to have a degree or professional certificate beyond high school — and almost everyone (about 95 percent) say that’s “important” to some extent. But ask Americans whether it’s important to increase the number of people who have such degrees
With more veterans per capita than any other state — and in a time in which unemployment among those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces is a key national concern — Alaska will be spending a lot of time and effort helping ensure its vets have jobs in the coming years. That would
A month after the already-extended deadline for the submission of state plans, there still wasn’t a one-stop location for WIOA documents — so we decided to make one. You might think this would be as easy as a quick bit of internet searching, right? Well, it turns out that each state has its own idea
The U.S. labor force is dominated by 45 to 60 year olds — a fact that is leading many people to fret over the stress that will hit the labor market when the baby boom generation retires en masse. That’s not a big concern in Utah, though, where the labor force is dominated by 25
In a political season in which absolutely nothing appears to be sacred, what’s the one thing no candidate is talking about? Job training. Not jobs. There has been plenty of talk about that, mostly about how it seems like there used to be so many good ones and about how all those jobs now seem
Did the District of Columbia’s “D.C. Works” plan leave out a key group of stakeholders? That’s the contention Eric Sheptock, an advocate for homeless residents of the District. He believes the WIOA program’s drafters have ignored the needs of one rather significant group as they tried to build what Mayor Muriel Bowser has referred to
Could Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act programs be a new front in the culture war? They could if 77 pages of proposed nondiscrimination rules related to the act are implemented. That’s because the rules, recently published in the Federal Register, take significant steps to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals who