Guest Commentary

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
Guest Commentary

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
Guest Commentary

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
Guest Commentary

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
Guest Commentary

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
Guest Commentary

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
Guest Commentary

“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