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In an ever-evolving economy, where the skills needed to drive growth are continually changing, workers and employers alike need well-funded, agile, equitable, easily navigable, and effective skills development systems.
This report from Jobs for the Future calls on policymakers to pursue 10 legislative and regulatory strategies to help achieve the transformation—and put millions more people on pathways to quality jobs.
Among the recommendations offered:
- Increase investments in the U.S. workforce at levels that create pathways to economic advancement for all workers by enabling them to build the skills that U.S. employers are seeking.
- Develop a robust career navigation system that helps students, parents, jobseekers, and workers make well-informed decisions about the education, career, and employment pathways they choose
- Ensure that education and skills development efforts are focused on quality jobs in growing industries that offer the most opportunity for economic advancement in state and regional economies.
- Encourage employers to engage more substantively in the design and delivery of occupation-focused programs and in the training and education of their own frontline workers.