Workforce Opportunity

The public workforce development system does much to connect America's unemployed and underemployed with gainful employment through America’s Job Centers, community colleges, and various career and technical education programs. Unfortunately, skills alone aren't the only barrier to employment. Degree inflation - the practice of employers requiring a college degree for jobs in which current workers largely do not possess a degree - steadily increased over the last two decades.

We work with lawmakers to create non-college pathways into middle class careers through bills such as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, National Apprenticeship Act, and National Defense Authorization Act. We also work directly with federal agencies, workforce development programs, unions, small businesses, and Fortune 500 employers to develop sector partnerships, apprenticeships, alternative career pathways, and work-based learning opportunities that help skilled workers overcome the structural biases they face in the labor market.