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By Kysha Frazier. What do you get when you put CSW together with 7 community stakeholder groups in Grand Rapids, Michigan for 2 full days of brainstorming? More than 350 distinct ideas aimed at creating economic opportunities for the city’s families! Just a sampling of the... read more →

Thanks to my colleague Mike King reminding me that the University of Michigan hosts a number of great speakers, forums, and other events in honor and celebration of Martin Luther King’s legacy, I was delighted to listen to Morris Dees, Founder of the Southern Policy Law Center, speak this morning... read more →

By Larry Good. Last week, I moderated a session at the Association for Public Policy & Management Conference in combination with our partners Chris King from the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources at the University of Texas-Austin and Carl Van Horn from the John J. Heldrich... read more →

In November, I spoke with master level human resources students at Cornell University about progressive employer strategies that support worker advancement, particularly for low skill workers. The students wanted to learn more about how their role as HR professionals can go beyond maximizing shareholder value and negotiating benefits and salaries... read more →

By Ed Strong. In March, we shared our concept paper, One-Stop Career Centers Must Be Reinvented to Meet Today's Labor Market Realities, in order to test our ideas, generate discussion, and refine the concept. After listening to policy leaders, practitioners working in the field, and local Workforce Investment Board directors who... read more →

By Tammy Coxen. This article refers more to data in the IT context, but some of the lessons (like that looking at data in too-small chunks leads to bad decision-making) is relevant to how we think about data and advise our clients.