Tag: Work in Progress
The space industry is many industries in one, and it’s growing
Just last year, Morgan Stanley estimated that revenue in the space industry could triple to more than $1 trillion over the next 20 years,...
Answering the nonprofit SOS at a time of increased civic need
Nonprofits in America employ more then 10 percent of all workers, or about 12.4 million people. These organizations, like so many other businesses, are...
Healing the emotional and spiritual pain of job loss
We are living in trying times. More than 40 million people have lost their jobs since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The jobless...
What our K-12 schools will look like when they reopen
Late last week, the Centers for Disease Control released its "decision tree" designed to aid school administrators in determining when they could, or should,...
Rebuilding America, rebuilding the middle class
Millions of Americans are in pain—physical, emotional, and financial. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed tens of thousands and businesses of all sizes have been...
Jobs Recovery: Prepare for 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back
I don't think anyone will be surprised by the April jobs numbers when they are released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics next week....
Earth Day: Protecting the environment, creating jobs
"The growth in the clean energy industry is indisputable," says Paula DiPerna, a special advisor to CDP, a nonprofit that works to build a...
“An emergency responder for the unemployed”
For those men and women living at or below the poverty line before COVID-19 pandemic, the jobless rate was already above the national average....
How we win the COVID-19 economic recovery
For the past few years, WorkingNation and many, many other voices have been raised in unison, shining a light on the urgent need to...
The most vulnerable workers are being hit the hardest
The COVID-19 pandemic has already led to a significant increase in layoffs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were 281,000 new unemployment...
