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You're Muted: The Future of "Remote" Work with Liz Farmer, Future of Labor Research Center Fellow at the SUNY Rockefeller Institute of Government
The pandemic changed many aspects of American life from home life, to school, and of course work. Now that some time has gone by, researchers are beginning to look at the overall impact of the shift to remote work, as...
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Cross-over Podcast with NYSAC: Help Wanted
Earlier this fall, Melinda Mack joined NYSAC’s Communications Manager Tom Oldfather for a cross-over episode focused on the state of New York State’s workforce,. This included potential solutions for training programs...
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Return of the Mack - Celebrating 10 Years
Laura Quigley takes over this episode of the podcast for a conversation with Melinda Mack, NYATEP's Executive Director, to reminisce about her 10 years at NYATEP. They return back to the early transition from NYATEP's...
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Don't Tell Mom & Dad: The Cost of Childcare
Many jobs across New York continue to go unfilled due to lack of quality, affordable childcare. Parents and caregivers are piecing together care, and it is unsustainable. Compounding the issue - recruiting and...
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Tackling Mental Health and Work
It should come as no surprise that the last few years has contributed to a mental health crisis across the globe. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a...
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Opportunity Youth: Undoing A Disrupted Year
Measure of America recently released a report called A Disrupted Year focused on the spike in "Opportunity Youth" across America. The 2020 national youth disconnection rate was 12.6 percent, or 4,830,700 disconnected...
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Workforce is Spelled "Collaboration" with John Helton of Atlanta CareerRise
Many workforce providers seek to maximize scarce resources and address the training and hiring needs of multiple employers in a sector through regional collaborations and partnerships. Over the last two years, NYATEP...
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Lost in Translation with Jina Krause-Vilmar of Upwardly Global
Political conflict, poverty, and discrimination has driven humans seeking safety and shelter across borders and into categories like "refugees" and "asylum seekers" all over the world. Considering the recent crisis in...
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Season 2 The Future Works: The Workforce RX
In this episode we are joined by Van Ton-Quinlivan, a nationally recognized catalyst and CEO of Futuro Health. She is known for creating inclusive social and economic mobility and has recently released...
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Future Works Season 2: Ep 1 -- Still Waiting, Congress Stalls on Funding Skills
September is here and as the federally funded Pandemic Unemployment Benefits come to an end over 8 million Americans will be out of money and need to get back to work. Despite the growth in job openings across the...
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The Future Works - Episode 10 Worker Cooperatives as a Tool for Economic Recovery
Rebecca Lurie is on faculty with the Urban Studies Department and the founder of the Community and Worker Ownership Project at the City University of NY School for Labor and Urban Studies. She is a founding member of...
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The Future Works Episode 9: Getting Schooled on Youth Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is all the rage, but it still isn't catching on as the "new school" model to support young adults transition to careers. In honor of apprenticeship month - we'll head back in time to a year ago to hear...
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