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Partnership Joins U.S. Chamber in Drive for Innovative Talent Finance Solution

8/26/20
In the new innovation-based economy, talent and skills are king. Today’s economy is undergoing a fundamental transformation where the skills needed by a workforce to remain competitive and successful…
Education

Houston Can Create Purposeful Pathways to Opportunity and Recovery

8/10/20
Pathways that help people access opportunities have to be created with purpose.  In late July, Marcela Escobari and Ian Seyal of the Brookings Institution’s Workforce of the Future Initiative joined…
Digital Technology

Report: Navigating the Changing Nature of Work 

7/16/20
A new labor market report highlights the disruption that greater automation and increased requirements for digital skills is causing regional workers and the importance of helping workers build…
Employment

TWC:  Expanded Funding Provides Skilling Opportunities for Workers and Unemployed

7/15/20
With the number of Texans filing for unemployment insurance skyrocketing in March and April, the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) was charged with exploring ways to use available funds to help…
Education

Education & Workforce Council: Aldine ISD Battles COVID-19 to Continue Educating

6/4/20
What’s it like running the state’s 9th largest school district during a pandemic? And how does that district, with an overwhelming number of underprivileged students, continue to support those…
Education

Virtual Internships, Micro-Internships Create Crosswalks from Classroom to Career Remotely

6/2/20
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses operate including the type of work that can be done, the methods by which it can be done and, in many cases, the locations of where it can be done…
Executive Partners