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August 3, 2023
Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Evidence-Based Sector Training
…a national workforce development nonprofit that has been key in empowering young adults by bridging the opportunity divide through a blend of training and internships. Recently, the organization expanded its…
August 2, 2023
The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage
…in America, and that falling marriage rates are a chief reason why happiness has declined nationally. The research, surveying thousands of respondents, revealed a startling 30-percentage-point happiness divide between married…
August 1, 2023
Can AI Make People Want to Have Children?
…not just individuals, but nations, conversations are taking place across the world about how to reverse this trend. Will all this visualization lead anywhere? “When you can vividly imagine your…
August 1, 2023
How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl
…tell us that.” I think you see this in a lot of polls where you ask people about their own situation versus the national situation, whether it’s on economic striving,…
July 31, 2023
The Utah Model: Workforce Programs and Services Integration Tool Kit
…oversee all employment and training funds enables quick resource reallocation to areas with urgent economic, natural disaster, and social needs. By centralizing and integrating benefit administration, Utah has simplified the…
July 28, 2023
The Time Is Now for Workforce Innovation
…at the stage of producing papers and events on how best to reform and enhance the nation’s workforce development programs. The latest of these papers is from two senior workforce researchers, Kenneth Troske of…
July 27, 2023
Time to Do Something About the NILFs
…would be, shall we say, ironic if we accepted on behalf of NILF men the same arguments we rejected when it came to welfare dependency among women. Based on the nation’s TANF experience, we…
July 27, 2023
Perspective: Can artificial intelligence teach us to be better workers?
…reason for this seismic shift? Generative AI, the technology taking the world by storm in the form of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude and image-generators like DALL-E. McKinsey now estimates that AI will reach top-quartile human ability in creativity, natural…
July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
…reviving them—and transforming key parts of the nation’s unemployment benefits system into a de facto welfare program forever. Since its creation during the Great Depression, the nation’s Unemployment Insurance (UI)…
July 25, 2023
Why Is Economic Growth Good?
…for welfare. In particular, it is positively correlated with life expectancy and negatively correlated with infant mortality and inequality. Since parents naturally feel grief for children they have lost, infant…