The Department of Education’s (DOE) Community Workforce Readiness Accelerator for Major Projects (RAMP) fellowship is a first-of-its-kind investment in local workforce development capacity building. The agency has launched a two-year fellowship opportunity available for candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to develop strategic workforce partnerships in…

In a surprise burst of bipartisanship in late 2023, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced legislation reauthorizing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Unfortunately, the compromise bill does little to re-balance our employer-dominated workforce development system or help workers navigate a…

By Emily Andrews, Breanna Betts, Laura Dresser, India Heckstall, Peter Rickman, Teófilo Reyes The Good Jobs Collaborative (GJC) is an evolving collaboration focused on transforming the nation’s workforce development system to advance economic justice, racial and gender equity, workers’ needs, and worker voice and power.…