Future-Ready: Policy Questions for Mayoral Candidates

The world — and our city — will transform over the next decade. What the next mayor does — or does not do — will shape the future, for better or worse.

By Anne Gemmell

Future-Ready: The Future of City Leadership is Collaboration

A leader is someone who brings people together for the common good. A future of work expert and 10K Independents Project leader wonders which mayoral candidate would be collaborator-in-chief

By Anne Gemmell

Future-Ready: The Next Mayor’s Jobs Vision

Philadelphia needs a grassroots, “grow your own” economic development and jobs strategy. A future of work expert, and 10K Independents Project leader, lays out how to size up candidates and engage with the process

By Anne Gemmell

Future Ready: It’s up to us to shape the automated future

A future of work expert responds to a recent Inquirer editorial calling on Washington to plan for the effects of robots taking over jobs. Really, she says: It’s up to us to create lasting jobs

By Anne Gemmell

Future-Ready: What Really Matters in Education?

It might not be what you think, according to a future of work expert. Here, her lessons learned in 20 years of navigating the schools landscape in and around Philly

By Anne Gemmell

Future-Ready: How We Could Climb to a Better Future

An expert on the future of work calls for a new way of measuring success in our city: A quality of life index for Philadelphia

By Anne Gemmell

Guest Commentary: Pre-K Polling Needs Improvement

A Greater Philadelphia last week released poll data about the City’s sweetened beverage tax that showed residents divided. Here, the City’s first Pre-K director refutes the premise and results of the survey

By Anne Gemmell

Future-Ready: The Key To Economic Growth

A Future of Work expert testified before City Council this week. This is her prescription for how public dollars can spur private growth in Philly

By Anne Gemmell