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The heath care workforce needs higher wages and better opportunities. Jane McDermott and Annelies Goger write about the career challenges entry-level health care workers face, and how policymakers and employers can increase access to professional development opportunities.
The Black innovators who elevated the United States. In a new report, Jonathan Rothwell, Andre M. Perry, and Mike Andrews examine how a significant number of Black inventors overcame substantial obstacles to bolster the nation’s technological and economic development.
Work-based learning can advance equity and opportunity for young people. Martha Ross, Richard Kazis, Nicole Bateman, and Laura Stateler outline an expansive vision for high-quality work-based learning programs that provide young people with the technical, academic, and interpersonal skills they need to succeed in the workplace.
Where Midwesterners struggle, Trumpism lives on. "If it weren’t for a large anti-Trump vote, particularly among African Americans and better-off, better-educated voters, Joe Biden would never have won his relatively narrow victories in Michigan and Wisconsin," John C. Austin writes in a new blog post.
How an equitable place governance pilot in Boston is shifting power balances. Philip Barash describes how a peer-learning initiative is working to foster spatial justice in face of relentless development policies that have threatened the vibrancy of Boston’s main streets and creative districts.
