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Innovative Workforce Development Program Sparks Light-Bulb Moments
Penn Globe, based in New Haven since the 1870s, has made products to shed light on places as diverse as Harvard, corporate campuses and Main Street at Disney, living by the motto “Lighting for the Greater Good.” Nothing embodies that mission more than the company’s pioneering Manufacturing and Technical Community Hub.
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Brookings Institution at the turn of the year unveiled a new working paper by Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Ian Seyal and Sophia Henn that purports to reveal which among the plethora of non-degree credentials (NDCs) help workers the most.
“For companies, the proliferation of NDCs promises a flexible, skills-first future responsive to their needs,” write Marcela Escobari and Ian Seyal in a release about the research, based on connecting data from more than 156 million U.S. resumes and 54.3 million credentials to wage returns. “But for workers, the glut of NDCs presents a chaotic gamble. In a market that is crowded, opaque and largely unregulated, workers often can’t tell the difference between a credential that actually pays off and one that merely clutters their resume or wastes their time and money.”
Among the conclusions in the 67-page working paper (be ready for multi-line equations):
- “JavaScript certifications among software developers or project management certifications among management analysts are both highly job-relevant.”
- “For workers without a bachelor’s degree, a first job‑relevant NDC is associated with a 6.8% wage premium, nearly double the return for college graduates. Early‑career workers see similarly large gains: Roughly a 6% wage premium and more than 2% per additional relevant NDC. For experienced workers, accumulation returns are close to zero.”
Site Selection’s extensive coverage of workforce credentials extends from our flagship publication to our annual Workforce guides, online newsletters and annual economic development guides from Conway Custom Content. Among the job-relevant reports:
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Trammell Crow Company Director of Global Development Research Louis Rosenthal has some thoughts on 2026 Development Themes. Among them: Economic growth no longer translates cleanly into space demand. “AI infrastructure, automated logistics and advanced professional and technical services increasingly concentrate economic output into smaller, more specialized footprints that require different (and often more intensive) infrastructure.”
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Photo courtesy of Brinkema Brothers Productions
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If you’re like us, the Winter Olympic Games are a welcome distraction full of inspiring stories and amazing feats of athleticism. For the athletes, they’re a lifelong dream come true in many cases, with pain and struggle part of the mix. Nobody captures all of the above like cross-country skier Jessie Diggins (pictured), an Olympic gold medalist and world champion whose experience with an eating disorder and evolution as a champion of mental health as well as elite performance are chronicled in the new film “Threshold.”
“This feature documentary is much more than a sports story; it’s a visceral, human account of vulnerability, stigma and recovery, unfolding in real time,” says a release from the film’s producers. “Through unprecedented access to Jessie and those closest to her, the film offers an intimate look into the complexity of a disorder that often hides in plain sight yet remains tragically underrepresented in film and misunderstood in care.”
Directed by Diggins’ fellow Minnesotans Lars Brinkema and Torsten Brinkema, the film makes its debut on Peacock February 23, the day after the Olympic Games end. Today she was scheduled to compete in her final event at her fourth and final Olympic Games, the Women’s 10km Interval Start Free.
Resources:
The Emily Program
National Alliance for Eating Disorders
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