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February 11, 2025
AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright
…and machine learning technologies, could provide us with a better understanding of current and future labor market demand. Such refinements to labor market information would form the foundation for more…
January 2, 2025
AI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare
The nation can do better at forecasting AI-driven job and skill changes, including with a data-focused nonprofit that examines the technology’s impact. Markets are the killer app for efficiently organizing…
November 22, 2024
A Side Effect of the Booming Job Market: Wage Inequality Is Way Down
…lower-wage workers experienced the most favorable labor market conditions in living memory. Plentiful job opportunities led to a sharp increase in worker risk tolerance for job changes. More frequent job…
November 21, 2024
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
…specific tasks, and to reshape demand for certain types of expertise in the labor market. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work evaluates recent advances in AI technology and their…
November 12, 2024
Irresistible Policy, Meet the Unmovable Labor Market
Gad Levanon, chief economist at The Burning Glass Institute, analyzed data relating to the share of undocumented workers in a wide variety of trades and lower-wage, lower-skilled occupations, as well…
October 30, 2024
Workforce Strategies for New Industrial Policies: Governors’ Emerging Solutions
New research from the Project on Workforce and the National Governors Association highlights how governors are leveraging new industrial policy opportunities to strengthen workforce development and meet labor market needs….
October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
Republicans and Democrats alike agree about the importance of workforce training. They’re right: Despite a recent labor-market cooling, there are still 7.7 million unfilled jobs in the United States. Unfortunately, America’s workforce-education…
October 18, 2024
What’s Working in America’s Workforce System
…behind almost every developed nation in spending on active labor market programs, and it is arguable that under-funding may be the chief source of weak outcomes. In other words, we…
October 3, 2024
The New “Old Girls Network” in the American Workplace
…like suicide, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related deaths, along with higher risks of workplace injuries. Of particular concern is the decline of marriage rates among these men, a key marker for…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…It may be that because of labor market conditions, men have increasingly opted to receive federal disability benefits and make time for other priorities rather than work at the wages…