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The Fastest-Growing Workforce Pathways Are the Ones We Know Least About: Dr. Michael Kirst, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University
“The last study of on the job training in the United States I could find was done in 1999, so we need to really...
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Dr. Zainab Okolo of The JED Foundation: Building the Workforce and Systems Needed to Support Youth Mental Health
One in four young people in the U.S. experience a mental health condition or illness, but partly due to a shortage of trained child...
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Michael Jones, Director of Workforce Development at UCSF Health: Where Goodwill and Good Business Strategy Meet
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, registered healthcare apprenticeships are up 43% in the last five years as employers turn to “earn while...
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Dr. Kim Hunter Reed, Louisiana Commissioner of Higher Education: A “Red Beans and Relationships" Recipe for Workforce Development
"With red beans, you have to tend the pot. It's not an instant meal. It takes time and creativity to get it right, and...
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Dr. Diane Rittenhouse, Senior Fellow at Mathematica: Fixing Primary Care's Broken Math
It would take a single primary care physician 26.7 hours per day to deliver all the recommended care for the patients that he or...
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Carolyn Campbell, President and CEO at NorQuest College: We Are Who We Include
Many of the U.S. labor market challenges we discuss on WorkforceRx are shared by Canada, including the need for more skilled workers that are...