The governor’s plan will require expansion beneficiaries to work 80 hours a month or be enrolled in school half time to retain coverage.
By paying and training preschool staff through a voter-approved real estate tax, the city aims to stabilize a workforce and expand access to child care.
They’re an important pipeline of skills, products and innovation for larger industries, but they’re reeling from tariffs. There’s a role for grants and tax breaks, and states need to track who these businesses are and what they do.
They need a lot more support than they get. Their success is crucial to building the workforce our economy needs.
New reforms aim to streamline job titles and help managers identify top candidates more quickly after years of losing talent to faster-moving employers.
New work rules and other reforms could help break the cycle of dependency. But to implement them, states need to move beyond a patchwork of programs that don’t talk to each other. Federal policymakers could help.
It’s more important than ever to celebrate those who improve the mechanisms of government. And we need to give them the kind of learning opportunities to enable them to have even more of an impact.
Facing a decadelong steady decline in small meat processors, Montana’s agricultural education efforts aim to teach the “dying art” of butchering.
The most obvious example right now is with artificial intelligence, but there are plenty of other challenges.
Two investigator positions meant to tackle school discrimination cases went unfilled for over a year and a half, illustrating how bureaucracy can slow even urgent state priorities.
Small-town shared workspaces are equipping residents with tools for creative collaboration and entrepreneurship. They’re reshaping how rural residents launch businesses.
But it doesn’t seem to be working, at least not yet. Pilot programs in Louisiana and Arizona reveal weak participation, limited functionality and risks of widespread coverage loss.
Sandy Stimpson is retiring as mayor of Mobile, Ala., after 12 years. He has helped stabilize the city’s finances and coordinate major infrastructure and economic development projects.
The commonwealth was recognized on Forbes’ list of best employers, a sign that efforts may be paying off.
As financial pressures mount, many rural systems are compressing their calendars — sparking debate over trade-offs in learning time and family burdens.
Not enough instructors and limited hospital placements are throttling capacity, despite surging interest and urgent workforce needs.
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