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Workforce Intelligence · article

Georgia projects 611,897 job openings over the next year — but 93 percent are low-wage replacement demand. The 2026Q1 JobsEQ data describe two labor markets moving at different speeds, and a credential system connected to the wrong one.

Sep 1, 2026 · 8 min read

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Workforce & Career Pathways

Data Report · data report

A JobsEQ® 2025Q4 profile of Georgia's labor market synthesizing demographic foundations, industry concentrations, and wage dynamics. Non-farm employment reached 5,320,987 with an average annual wage of $70,163. Health Care and Social Assistance leads volume at 700,911 workers and drove +128,897 net jobs over five years, while Transportation and Warehousing (LQ 1.21) and Information (LQ 1.21, $136,822 avg wage) mark Georgia's durable competitive advantages. The one-year outlook forecasts a net gain of +42,359 jobs through 2026.

Jun 30, 2026 · 7 min read

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Data Report · data report

Analysis of 33,426,935 active U.S. online job postings across 990 occupations, 962,147 companies, and every major metropolitan area between June 2025 and June 2026. More than half of postings (18.4M) left education requirements unspecified, and among those that did, high school (6.73M) nearly matched bachelor's (6.03M) — confirming skills-based hiring as the operational default. Healthcare occupations dominate volume; New York, Chicago, Houston, and Atlanta (4th nationally at 228,510) lead metro demand; Microsoft Office (3.02M) and Excel (2.95M) top hard-skill specifications, with implications for Georgia's workforce, healthcare pipeline, and digital-productivity credentialing.

Jun 30, 2026 · 8 min read

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AI & Future of Work · article

IBM sold Watson Health for a fraction of what it invested — but the company's parallel internal reskilling story offers concrete lessons for the generative AI retraining challenge now unfolding at scale.

Jun 16, 2026 · 9 min read

Educators · Workforce professionals

AI & Future of Work

AI & Future of Work · article

OECD data shows 42% of EU workers are now affected by algorithmic management — and the technology has moved well beyond gig platforms into mainstream white-collar and public-sector work.

Jun 16, 2026 · 7 min read

Educators · Workforce professionals

AI & Future of Work

AI & Future of Work · article

Federal generative AI use cases nearly doubled in a year — but accountability, data sovereignty, and neutrality frameworks have not kept pace. A four-part roadmap for responsible integration.

Jun 16, 2026 · 9 min read

Educators · Workforce professionals

AI & Future of Work

White Paper · white paper

A national blueprint for transforming Liberia's fifteen community colleges into engines of workforce development through the 40 Percent Workforce Model, County Workforce Innovation Hubs, and the Liberia Apprenticeship Framework — connecting education to skills, employment, entrepreneurship, and economic opportunity.

Jun 16, 2026 · 1 min read

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Economic Development

Economic Development · article

New evidence on lending disparities and the policy tools that can expand entrepreneurship in underserved communities.

Jun 10, 2026 · 7 min read

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Economic Development

Economic Development · article

How the normalization of distributed work is redistributing economic activity away from coastal hubs into smaller metros and rural counties.

Jun 7, 2026 · 9 min read

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Economic Development

Economic Development · article

The distributional effects of federal clean energy investment, and what happened when the policy framework faced a change in political administration.

Jun 4, 2026 · 9 min read

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Economic Development

Economic Development · article

Whether CHIPS Act investment is producing resilient regional manufacturing ecosystems or a new generation of single-facility company towns.

Jun 1, 2026 · 8 min read

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Economic Development

Policy Brief · policy brief

A framework for accelerating economic integration across regions through compressed policy, trade, and labor-market alignment. Published on SSRN, May 27, 2026.

May 27, 2026 · 1 min read

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Policy Reviews · article

In April 2026, the House Education and Workforce Committee passed ASWA 2026 — a WIOA reauthorization that extended the law's authorization through 2032 while leaving largely unaddressed the labor market challenge it will govern: the accelerating displacement of workers by AI systems across occupational categories that previous automation waves left untouched. The Senate's 2024 draft had included AI workforce transition provisions. They did not survive. The workforce policy framework governing the country's response to AI-era disruption was just extended through 2032, largely unchanged.

Apr 29, 2026 · 6 min read

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Policy & Government

Policy Reviews · article

Credential inflation — the expansion of degree requirements beyond what job performance actually requires — is not a data anomaly. Evidence from the Burning Glass Institute, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Brookings Institution confirms it is a policy-addressable market failure with measurable costs distributed unevenly across the workforce. This analysis examines its three primary forms, who bears the cost, and the three policy levers with the most documented traction.

Feb 27, 2026 · 5 min read

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Policy & Government

Education & Human Capital · article

In 1906, the Carnegie Foundation introduced the Carnegie Unit — a standardized measure of instructional time created as an administrative convenience for pension accounting. One hundred and twenty years later, it remains the organizing principle of American secondary education. The labor market the system was built to serve is gone. The education system built to serve it is not. This analysis examines the industrial design of American schooling, the accountability mismatch, and what durable-skills curriculum would actually require.

Jan 12, 2026 · 7 min read

Learners · Educators · Workforce professionals

Education & Human Capital

Policy Reviews · article

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act was signed into law on July 22, 2014. A decade later, its authorization has lapsed, its funding has eroded, and Congress is debating reauthorization that would restructure core elements of the system. This analysis examines what WIOA was designed to accomplish, what the evidence shows it has actually delivered, and what its next decade needs to look like — as a reauthorization bill advances on a party-line vote through a Senate with an uncertain path ahead.

Dec 22, 2025 · 3 min read

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Policy & Government

Education & Human Capital · article

In 2024, Singapore enhanced its SkillsFuture Level-Up Programme, adding a $4,000 top-up credit for mid-career workers aged 40 and above. The policy logic is straightforward: continuous learning across a working life is a national infrastructure requirement, not an individual market choice. The United States has the components of a lifelong learning infrastructure scattered across disconnected programs. What it lacks is the architecture that connects them — and the political consensus that the cost is shared.

Dec 15, 2025 · 6 min read

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Education & Human Capital

Education & Human Capital · article

In March 2024, the Burning Glass Institute launched the Credential Value Index — the most comprehensive attempt yet to analyze labor market outcomes across more than 23,440 credentials. Its arrival reflected a fundamental gap: workers enrolling in over a million short-term programs rarely have access to the employment and earnings data that would allow them to make an informed investment decision. This analysis examines what the current evidence actually shows about when certificates outperform degrees and when they do not.

Dec 8, 2025 · 6 min read

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Education & Human Capital

Policy Reviews · article

Active registered apprentices reached approximately 678,000 in 2025 — an 88 percent increase from 2015. These are genuine gains that still leave the United States with apprenticeship participation well below one percent of its workforce, a fraction of rates in Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. This analysis examines where state-level expansion is producing results, where structural barriers limit scale, and why federal inaction remains the system's ceiling.

Nov 24, 2025

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Policy & Government

Policy Reviews · article

More than half of U.S. states have taken formal action to remove degree requirements from government hiring since 2019. In the private sector, 85 percent of employers now report using skills-based hiring practices. Yet despite widespread rhetoric, only 0.14 percent of new hires at companies claiming skills-based practices actually lacked a college degree in roles where degrees were previously required. The policy is right. The implementation is where the work remains.

Nov 17, 2025 · 2 min read

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Policy & Government

Education & Human Capital · article

More than one million short-term workforce credentialing programs exist across the United States — with no consistent quality framework and no shared standard for what a credential means or whether it leads to a job. The direction of the shift toward stackable credentials is correct. The evidence that the structural conditions for success are consistently present is not. This analysis examines what the research actually shows about when credential stacking works, why the traditional degree is being unbundled rather than replaced, and what policy infrastructure is required.

Nov 10, 2025 · 3 min read

Learners · Educators · Workforce professionals

Education & Human Capital

Education & Human Capital · article

The average community college student in the United States is 27 years old, working full-time, and making a high-stakes investment in a credential they expect to pay off quickly. Community colleges enroll nearly 40 percent of all undergraduates and are often the only postsecondary option for working adults. Yet more than a third of all community college credentials do not lead to strong workforce outcomes. This analysis examines what separates high-performing institutions from the rest — and what Texas's HB 8 funding reform reveals about what structural change actually requires.

Nov 3, 2025 · 2 min read

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Education & Human Capital

Economic Development · article

U.S. corporate training expenditures reached $102.8 billion in 2025 — yet average training hours per employee fell from 47 to 40 hours in the same year. American employers are spending more on training in aggregate while investing less in any given worker. This article examines the accounting asymmetry, market failure, and policy gaps that explain why the United States chronically underinvests in human capital relative to its global competitors.

Oct 27, 2025 · 3 min read

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Economic Development

Workforce Intelligence · article

The World Economic Forum's 2025 Future of Jobs Report found that 39 percent of existing skill sets will be transformed or outdated by 2030. But this is not merely a skills problem — it is a structural problem with how careers are organized. The career ladder, built for a labor market of stable skills and long employer tenure, is being dismantled. The institutions responsible for supporting workers through career development have not yet built the infrastructure to serve what is replacing it.

Oct 20, 2025 · 3 min read

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Workforce & Career Pathways

Economic Development · article

When South Carolina competes for a major manufacturing facility, the state's pitch begins not with tax incentives but with a workforce guarantee. That promise is delivered through readySC — a program that sits inside the Department of Commerce, not Labor. South Carolina figured out what most states have not: workforce development and economic development are not parallel programs. They are the same program. The administrative separation between them is costing regional economies in measurable ways.

Oct 13, 2025 · 3 min read

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Economic Development

Workforce Intelligence · article

A McKinsey analysis estimated that up to 375 million workers worldwide would need to change occupational categories by 2030 due to automation. The technology is not coming — it is already embedded in hiring systems, logistics networks, and service platforms that millions of workers interact with daily. The institutional infrastructure capable of responding has not arrived. This article opens the PPV Automation Paradox series, examining why the systems built to develop human capital are structurally misaligned with the labor market they are supposed to serve.

Oct 6, 2025 · 3 min read

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Policy Brief · policy brief

An examination of constitutionally limited government and the case for a Balanced Budget Amendment as a mechanism for fiscal responsibility in American governance. Published on SSRN, September 4, 2024.

Sep 4, 2024 · 1 min read

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Policy Brief · policy brief

An evaluation of U.S. legislative approaches to environmental protection and climate change policy, weighing effectiveness, tradeoffs, and reform options. Published on SSRN, August 12, 2024.

Aug 12, 2024 · 1 min read

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Policy Brief · policy brief

A study of administrative law and public administration — the legal frameworks that govern agencies, accountability mechanisms, and contemporary challenges facing the administrative state. Published on SSRN, August 3, 2024.

Aug 3, 2024 · 1 min read

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