Jobs
Keep Shining, Philly
The city proved itself a remarkable host this summer. Now, a corporate leader notes, it’s time to keep competing on the world stage
By Roberto E. Perez
Fixing the Prison-to-Temp (Worker) Pipeline
The temp work industry has more than doubled since 1990, but members of City Council and labor advocates say more accountability is long overdue
By Malcolm Burnley
Philadelphia Women, Still Underpaid
Our city’s pay equity paradox: Women who work have more education, and still earn less. An executive on how to fix this
By Meghan Pierce
Modernize the Prison to Work Pipeline
Technology infrastructure inside prisons is Philadelphia's best workforce and safety investment, say two workforce and education leaders
By Jane Oates and David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez
It’s Time to Act on Fair-Chance Hiring
Philadelphia companies have outwardly embraced putting returning citizens to work. That’s great, says a decades-long fair-chance employer — provided those employers do some work themselves
By Nic Watson
The Key to Staying Out of Prison? Jobs
Through partnerships with the City and HRP Group, the Center for Employment Opportunities is helping formerly incarcerated Philadelphians on the path to a better life
By Christina Griffith
A Region Rises Together — or Not at All
Last in economic mobility among the 50 largest U.S. metros and stagnant in job creation, Greater Philadelphia should, says a chamber of commerce chair and a former U.S. ambassador, unite to succeed
By David L. Cohen and Christopher Franklin
Philly Can Be a National Model for Working Class Mobility
Here are the six steps we need to take, according to Heights Philadelphia’s President/CEO
By Sean Vereen
Eds, Meds … and Seventh Graders?
At Hardy Williams High School, a new health institute creates early pathways into the nation’s fastest growing, and possibly most enduring, job sector
By Rachel Wisniewski
“Then. Now. Tomorrow.”
Representatives of the National Association of Manufacturers — coming to Carpenters’ Hall this week — encourage less regulation and more innovation as a path to the next 250 years
By Jay Timmons and David Taylor