How layoffs, AI adoption and policy pressures reshaped workforce opportunity in 2025, revealing risks that leaders must ...

The pandemic’s lingering effects, along with the current volatile state of the economy, have significantly impacted families and working professionals, especially women. According to the U.S. Bureau ...

The participation rate and unemployment rate are both used to gauge the health of the job market but in completely different ways.

As AI threatens to automate millions of white-collar roles, concerns about job-ready skills are louder than ever. But Mike ...

Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. The number of prime working age persons (those aged 25 to 54 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota is a national leader for women's workforce participation but a gender pay gap persists, according to a new report from researchers at the University of Minnesota. The 2024 ...

Research shows that when women earn their own income, families are not only financially stronger but also socially more ...

Harry Holzer, a Senior Fellow at Brookings and a key contributor to AEI’s Workforce Futures Initiative (WFI), published a recent analysis of the potential of the publicly-funded US workforce system to ...

East Texas faces a large spike in retirement as it ages with the rest of the nation.  The “gray tsunami,” a term used to ...

Over the past generation, the work trends for older Americans were one of the bright spots in an otherwise decidedly mixed labor force picture. But that is no longer the case. Both employment and ...

EMERGENCY HEALTH ORDERS. I THINK THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE USED BY POLICYMAKERS, USED BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE LEGISLATURE TO REALLY EVALUATE WHAT’S HAPPENING IN TERMS OF GETTING OUR YOUNG, YOUNGER ...

Alabama politicians chase so many imaginary problems that it’s worth noting when they dialogue with reality. For example, the recent creation by Gov. Kay Ivey and state legislators of a commission to ...