Jobs

Ideas We Should Steal: Training Workers for Well-Paying Jobs
New Jersey’s public-private Pay It Forward program provides free or low-cost access to training in fields that need skilled workers. It’s a model Philly should emulate
By Courtney DuChene
Business for Good Update: Honeycomb Credit
A crowdfunding platform for small businesses returns to Philly — and promises help for minority-owned small businesses, thanks to a new partner
By Courtney DuChene
How to End Philadelphia’s Staffing Crisis
One in seven city jobs are vacant, creating a backlog in services to residents. It may be time to rethink who, and how, we hire
By Nick Russo
The Real Problem at Temple … Isn’t Just Temple’s
The issue, a long-time university president laments, is the exploitation of graduate students at colleges
By Elaine Maimon
What Shapiro Got Right on College Degrees
The new governor eliminated the requirement of a four-year degree for most jobs in state government. A longtime university president explains why she applauds the decision
By Elaine Maimon
Poverty Is Not Fashion
Why new fashion trends are insulting to poor people and how to actually help them
By Jemille Q. Duncan
Citizen Updates: Hopeworks Comes to Kensington
The Camden-based tech training program opened in Kensington this month with plans to replicate its poverty-fighting work where it’s most needed
By Courtney DuChene
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