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Learn and Earn

Moving America Forward with the 21st-Century Skills Workers Need and Employers Want

In an election season dominated by widespread worry over persistent joblessness and an anemic economic recovery, a new research report documents a promising path for America’s employers and workers.

A Talent Development Solution: Exploring Business Drivers and Returns in Learn and Earn Partnerships

For more than a decade, Corporate Voices for Working Families (Corporate Voices) has cultivated
public and private policies that promote the wellbeing of working families while strengthening
our nation’s economy and enhancing the vitality of our communities. Our partner companies lead
their industries in developing best practices that both help working families and meet bottom-line
business goals. Nowhere is this more evident than in Corporate Voices’ work on jobs, skills, education
and training.

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Businesses and Community Colleges Must Team Together

The current edition of Community College Journal features an article on mutually beneficial partnerships between community colleges and businesses. "Working With Industry," by Ellen Ullman, relates how building these partnerships within communities can aid community colleges not only with funding, but also the development and implementation of programs of study that result in students completing and obtaining credentials with labor market value.

Businesses and Community Colleges Must Team Together

The current edition of Community College Journal features an article on mutually beneficial partnerships between community colleges and businesses. "Working With Industry," by Ellen Ullman, relates how building these partnerships within communities can aid community colleges not only with funding, but also the development and implementation of programs of study that result in students completing and obtaining credentials with labor market value.

Workplace Flexibility as a Talent Development Tool

Corporate Voices for Working Families’ member companies tell us that what “keeps them up at night” is how to retain top talent and ensure the future workforce, particularly hourly employees.

Businesses and Community Colleges: Building on Success to Reclaim the American Dream

 

At a time when national leaders are looking to America’s more than 1,200 community colleges to help fuel an economic transformation, a new report from our colleagues at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) spotlights both great opportunities and serious challenges ahead.

Business and Community College Partnerships: A Blueprint

Research on education and skills levels of employees and jobs available in the future is clear. Recent pro-
jections by The Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce indicate, by 2018, the economy will
experience 47 million job openings, two-thirds of which will require some postsecondary education or train-
ing. Predictions indicate that there will not be enough people qualified to fill three million of these jobs, jobs
which require at least a two-year associate’s degree. Without strategic change this gap will only continue to

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Corporate Voices and Its Partner Companies Featured at White House Event Launching Summer Jobs Plus Initiative

 

Corporate Voices and a number of our partner companies played a key role in a White House event that was held January 5 to launch the Summer Jobs Plus Initiative.

Corporate Voices for Working Families

A Unique Voice Bridging Business and Policy to Shape the Competitiveness of the Workforce and Workplace

Corporate Voices for Working Families, a leading non-profit buisness membership organization, engages the business community in advancing postsecondary education completion and workforce readiness training through its Learn and Earn initiative. This initiative seeks to identify, promote and encourage innovative partnerships between employers and community colleges to help low-income young adults earn a living while continuing their education. This work is made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its Postsecondary Success Strategy.

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