How are small employers thinking about #JobQuality for their workers? Join Reimagine Main Street , & on 7/26 where we'll explore this question. Register here: publicprivatestrategies.zoom.us/webinar/regist
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What a great lineup of so many of my favorite friends leading on talent, small business, and good jobs!
Amy Saxton , Kim Brown , Don Baylor , , and more.
#SmallBusiness #GoodJobs #DEI #Workforce
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Thrilled to announce the release of this scoping report on worker power. Thanks to the people at for providing us the space to lay out the various dimensions of worker power in the U.S. today:
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Ben Armstrong of encourages companies to reframe how they consider integrating tech to productivity. Rather than thinking "human vs machine" consider "machine enhances humans". #talkopportunity
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Thanks to (), (), & Todd Greene ( ) for the great conversation today on how small businesses can drive good jobs and workforce equity!
#SmallBusiness #GoodJobs #DEI #Workforce
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Do you care about #jobquality & small business? Hear from small employers on their approaches to good job creation and results of a new survey of small employers and job quality. Tomorrow at 3 pm ET. Register here: publicprivatestrategies.zoom.us/webinar/regist
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How are small employers thinking about #JobQuality for their workers? Join Reimagine Main Street @PubPrivStrat, @commonfutureco & @WorkRiseNetwork on 7/26 where we'll explore this question. Register here: publicprivatestrategies.zoom.us/webinar/regist
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Tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. ET: A ETA session on #apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships focused on youth & young adults: workforcegps.org/events/2022/06
States with larger Black populations have stricter unemployment insurance rules, which means benefits for Black people are 8% lower than for white people
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26 states did not support direct care workers w/hazard pay or sick pay during the first 18 months of the pandemic, while 24 states + DC did, according to new research from
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. and #research: Employer Practices and Worker Outcomes: A Landscape Report ow.ly/NVj250JQEUH #wkdev
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Hispanic/Latinx & Black workers are less likely to have access to paid leave than white workers-- 58%, 67%, & 72%, respectively-- find , , & M. Karpman: urbn.is/3uQBPcK
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Small employers are often excluded from conversations about #jobquality. On 7/26, , Reimagine Main Street , & aims to fill that gap with a convening on #goodjobs & small employers. Register here:
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Did you miss our recent convening on #childcare & an equitable #labormarket recovery? Check out the recording here: workrisenetwork.org/event/child-ca
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Major thanks to our speakers and all who registered/attended our child care and labor market recovery event today! Stay tuned for the recording, which we will post here: workrisenetwork.org/event/child-ca
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Major thanks to our speakers and all who registered/attended our child care and labor market recovery event today! Stay tuned for the recording, which we will post here: workrisenetwork.org/event/child-ca
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Join us today at 2:30p ET! Experts from @ChildCareAware @MplsFedComDev @RapidSurvey @USCCFoundation @urbaninstitute @TCFdotorg @ZEROTOTHREE & @CARRNetwork will share ideas on solving #childcare challenges to support an equitable labor market recovery:bit.ly/3IxG6Yf
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Correction: Shifting from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset means we don't have the choose between child care and paid leave or other family supports; if we have the investments, we can provide a variety of supports to meet families' needs, via #LiveAtUrban
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Shifting from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset means we don't have the choose between child care subsidy and paid leave or other family supports... if we have the investments, we can provide a variety of supports to meet families' needs, via #LiveAtUrban
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We've moved to a professionalism of child care & center-based care and away from care needs of parents and needs of providers; we need to have a bigger vision of the problem and solutions, via Gina Adams #LiveAtUrban
We have the data and solutions. We provide enough training to child care workers. We need money to implement these solutions, via #LiveAtUrban
One bright spot: it took Covid for employers to realize that they need to be engaged on child care and help meet the care needs of their employees, #LiveAtUrban
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ARPA funding has been great for child care, an incredibly important infusion, but it's going away--it can't fix systemic issues unless those significant investments returns, via Gina Adams #LiveAtUrban
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Incredible examples of child care wins in Colorado to increase supply of child care & engaging employers on this issue, via #LiveAtUrban
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Parent perspectives are necessary to craft child care policies; shared examples of successful parent-led child care campaigns #LiveAtUrban
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The reality is: we need *all* family-support policies that support women's labor force participation, via #LiveAtUrban
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Most families don't participate in #CCDBG, so we need *so many more solutions* than child care subsidies to address care needs (that go beyond children, but also older adults, people with illness/injury, disability), via #LiveAtUrban
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We need subsidies to pay for the kinds of care that parents want and need to support their work, including for nontraditional work schedules, via Gina Adams #LiveatUrban
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Insufficient funding drives *very* difficult tradeoffs made by states with equity implications, via Gina Adams #LiveAtUrban
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Not just about wages with #ECE workforce; it's also about scheduling and creating incentives to expand supply, via Phil Fisher #LiveAtUrban
Education IS child care as well; K-12 education also grappling with recruitment/retention of workforce, via Clare Waterman
A lot of work to be done figure out provider costs and how child care is financed; how the workforce is compensated, via
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Need to listen to families and providers when designing child care systems, policies, and programs, via Phil Fisher
There's a chance to reframe these issue, which this panel has underscored: what's good for families is good for the workforce is good for employers, via Phil Fisher
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We need to partner with community-based orgs to truly learn what working parents' child care needs, via Phil Fisher
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Clare Waterman : We need more information about how families make their choices around child care to help develop policies and programs. aimed at supporting caregiving and workforce needs.
Need to think about equity issues when it comes to access and affordability--it's not always a question of cost, it's also when care is available and does the type of care meet the needs of parents. #LiveAtUrban
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Need to challenge the assumption that family-based care is lower quality, per Phil Fisher #LiveAtUrban
Understand what the caregiving needs of low-wage workers--and really all workers--are. What they may need is actually predictable scheduling... employers need to learn via surveys what their employees need. #LiveAtUrban
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Employers want to do more for their working parents, per It's not just on-site care; a whole host of strategies, including flexible hours, backup care, childcare vouchers, and paid time off. #LiveAtUrban
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Surveys from shows that 28-40 percent of parents said that someone in their household had left a job, not taken a job, or changed jobs because of problems with child care. #LiveAtUrban
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. : initially we got engaged on child care from the perspective of young children's learning & school-readiness; this position evolved into seeing it as a two-generation issue. interest among employers as a two-gen issue has really grown. #LiveAtUrban
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