2024 Workforce Guide

New reports address the issue of significant underrepresentation of certain demographics in STEM programs.

The Manufacturing Imperative – Workforce Pipeline Challenge from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers is one program empowering the nation’s technical colleges and their students.

The Brookings Institution’s Martha Ross and Mark Muro explore how federal, state and local leaders can leverage the CHIPS and Science Act as a landmark workforce opportunity.

Lynchburg-based BWXT is expanding on multiple fronts, with part of that growth designed to one day propel astronauts to Mars.

Top U.S. companies look to harness the talent held by the country’s armed forces.

TexasEDConnection communities are an important part of the workforce development fabric set to receive $5 billion in state higher education funding over the next two years.

When the topic turns to the potential impact of artificial intelligence, workforce development analysts consistently liken AI’s rapid and evolving emergence to such era-defining phenomena as the industrial and digital revolutions. AI, experts believe, will reshape the global workplace and redefine how companies compete.

Universities around the nation ramp up workforce development efforts in technology and health care.

What’s the price of a quality education?

Vermont surges as an outlier in Lightcast analysis.

Getting more EVs on the road takes a lot of workforce development ingenuity.

There’s new money for job training, but let’s be sure it’s going to the right places — and people.

High school students are once again preparing for the workforce before graduation.

How a manufacturer of mobile transformers sources talent in central Virginia.

With the cost of child care rising rapidly, the more than 14 million working parents in America with children under the age of three are faced with quite the conundrum...

In the past few years, we’ve experienced some of the most competitive labor markets in recent history.

The markets where it’s happening and why it’s important.

Here’s how top employers are handling the return-to-office debate.

Ron Starner leads off this year’s Workforce 2024 publication with the results of a survey of leaders in economics, workforce development, site selection and economic development.