This report provides a comprehensive guide to replicating and scaling California’s regional apprenticeship intermediary networks. It offers actionable insights on how these networks can streamline employer engagement, foster inclusivity, and align educational programs with industry…
In this paper, JFF offers a comprehensive set of federal policy recommendations that are highly actionable, practical, and bipartisan—focusing on solutions that can be implemented to build a more inclusive dynamic and human-centered economy. Jobs…
California’s regional intermediaries, such as LAUNCH, NCAN, and SCAN, offer scalable solutions for apprenticeship expansion by bridging and connecting education, industry, support service providers, government, labor, and other apprenticeship stakeholders, fostering collaboration, and reducing employer…
How to Use Investments in Infrastructure, Semiconductor Technology, and Climate to Help Workers This guide outlines 10 shifts workforce development agencies can make to harness the power and help drive the impact of infrastructure, semiconductor…
In the Humanities to Career initiative, JFF is evaluating efforts at three community colleges to identify effective ways to help humanities and liberal arts students develop in-demand professional skills. Acknowledgments Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel…
State Policy Framework This framework describes steps states can take toward adopting the Big Blur’s four key components, plus four types of policy environments states encounter in creating a reimagined grade-11-14 learn-and-work system. Related Content
Understanding Job Quality in the Technology Sector This resource applies JFF’s Quality Jobs Framework to the manufacturing industry using national data that examines key components of quality jobs. Related Content
Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) vision for the Big Blur calls for entirely new educational institutions and systems to better prepare 16-to-20-year-olds for college and careers. This paper examines how instructor preparation, state accountability systems,…
New JFF research highlights current and potential uses for generative AI in workforce development and identifies existing tools and market opportunities. Endnotes 1 Research methods: We interviewed 36 people. The sample was made up of training…