It’s not altogether unusual for the federal government to have a law on the books long before the rules that govern how the law will be enforced have been created. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act was different, though, in one key way: It required every state to come up with a comprehensive plan for
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
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
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