workforce
States Increasing Scholarship Opportunities to Boost College Graduation Rates
With an increased need to compete globally, the need for a highly educated workforce has taken center stage in a number of states. But with the continuing issue of college affordability, states are looking at new ways to increase the number of college graduates within their borders.
Study Says Florida Needs Skilled Workers and Early-stage Support for High-Tech Growth
Though the state of Florida has aggressively pursued research investment over the past few years, particularly in the life science, a new report finds the state is still struggling to build a sufficient pool of highly-skilled workers for its high-tech companies. The study, which was conducted at the behest of 19 local economic development organizations, finds the state has not yet made a complete transition from an agriculture- and real estate-based economy to one built on high-tech industry and innovation.
Louisiana Redirects Workforce Investments toward Emerging Industries
Raising Personal Income through Focused Efforts in Emerging Workforce Areas
In the midst of a national economic downturn, coupled with stagnant to little growth in wages for even college-educated individuals, state efforts to build a qualified workforce and attract industries in emerging fields that pay above-average wages are crucial to ensuring economic growth.
Reports Detail Metrics of States’ Community Colleges, Collaborations with One-Stop Centers
The network of community colleges throughout the U.S. has an integral and increasing role in preparing the nation’s workforce for career and technical training. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 6.2 million full-time and part-time students attended public two-year colleges in 2005 – about 41 percent of the nation’s total undergraduate population. Two reports released earlier this month provide a deeper look into U.S.
Projecting the Impact of Computers on Work in 2030
This report predicts the impact that the development of computers will have on the current workforce by 2030. In the coming decades, the processing speed and physical functionality of machines will increase, often eliminating the need for human function. It is predicted that 60 percent of the current workforce will be displaced by 2030.
Growing Vermonts Next Generation Workforce
This report, created with a partnership with the Vermont State Data Center, looks at the topic of brain drain in the Vermont. It combines migration and occupational data with polling research to show who is entering and leaving the state and for what reasons. Information is provided on what other states are doing to address the brain drain issue.
Audit of Department of Economic Development Grow Iowa Values Fund
This audit reviews the Grow Iowa Values Fund (GIVF) in addition to several other funds used the the state to support employment growth. The report finds a discrepancy between the number of jobs promised and the number of jobs created.
The Implications of Service Offshoring for Metropolitan Economies
This report examines service offshoring—the movement of service jobs overseas— and forecasts higher than average job losses in twenty-eight U.S. metropolitan areas between 2004 and 2015. Information technology jobs, and the metropolitan areas where they are concentrated, will be hardest hit.
How Far and For How Much? Evidence on Wages and Potential Travel-to-Work Distances from a Survey of the Economically Inactive
The present paper uses unique survey data to examine three factors relevant to issues regarding raising employment rate, namely the desire to work, minimum acceptable wages and the distance the inactive are prepared to travel to work for a given minimum acceptable wage offer.