Spotlight on AEI’s Survey on Community and Society
Work, skills, and community: Restoring opportunity for the working class
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Localism in America
Secretary Betsy DeVos, Pell Grants, and politics
Education programs like adult basic education, adult secondary education, technical education, and postsecondary education, partially funded by the Second Chance Pell Grant Program, may be helping reduce recidivism, build self-efficacy, and improve workforce opportunities for incarcerated adults.
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Future positive
Companies face significant uncertainty due to many forces of change as they attempt to prepare the workforce of the future. To navigate the headwinds, employers must be more discerning in their strategic choices. As they fight the turbulence, they need to tap into an unexpected ally: their middle-skills workers who are eager to embrace change and prepare for the future.
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From gig to gig: Thumbtack’s CEO on the challenges facing contract workers
The phrase “gig worker” often conjures an image of a driver providing a routine service for low pay. But freelancers provide services on a contracted, or “gig,” basis in a wide range of fields from cosmetology to carpentry. Joe Fuller and Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta discuss shared challenges these varied “pros” face in this episode of Managing the Future of Work.
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Your workforce is more adaptable than you think
While the executives were pessimistic about their employees’ ability to acquire the capabilities needed to thrive in an era of rapid change, the employees were not.
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The conservative sensibility: A conversation between George Will and Robert Doar
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author George Will discusses his new book, “The Conservative Sensibility” (Hachette Books, June 2019), with incoming AEI President Robert Doar.
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How edX is redesigning learning for the future
In a world where jobs are constantly changing, the workforce must be able to continually add skills, and receive credit for them, to remain relevant. In this episode of Managing the Future of Work, Joe Fuller and Anant Agarwal, MIT professor and CEO of education platform edX, who says “the future of work is the same as the future of learning,” discuss edX’s innovative solutions for today’s learners.
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The bullying and silencing of students
Viewpoint diversity dies when we cannot challenge others and we are bullied into silence and conformity.
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Are survey data still useful?
Join AEI for a discussion, cosponsored with Results for America, of whether government surveys, including those conducted by the Census Bureau, have been rendered obsolete by other data sources — and why that matters.
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The third pillar: ‘Inclusive localism’ as the key to rebuilding American communities
AEI will host University of Chicago Professor Raghuram Rajan to explore the concepts behind his new book, “The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind” (Penguin Press, 2019), and discuss strategies for restoring the role of local communities in American life.
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