WORKER EQUITY INITIATIVE RESOURCES
These resources highlight efforts to ensure equity within the workforce. The resources recognize the systemic barriers to opportunity for people of color and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on employment and the economy.
A Racial Equity Framework for Workforce Development Funders
This framework is intended to identify concrete ways for funders in the workforce development field to interrupt the systemic racism embedded within the field’s practices, policies, and programs; the institution of philanthropy; our own organizations; and the labor market in communities we serve.
Applying a Racial Equity Lens to Digital Literacy
This fact sheet outlines how workers of color are affected by digital skill gaps. Draws on U.S. data from a respected international assessment known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Survey of Adult Skills.
Advancing Equity Through Workforce Intermediary Partnerships
This report details examples of the breakthroughs that workforce intermediary partnerships are making to ensure employers have the skilled workforce needed for today’s economy and workers are well-positioned on pathways to family-sustaining careers.
Advancing Equity in the Bay Area: A Blueprint for Action
This report, produced in partnership with PolicyLink, Burning Glass Technologies, and ReWork the Bay, offers a comprehensive analysis of long-standing racial gaps in labor market outcomes, the economic impacts of Covid-19, and the racial equity implications of automation.
Ensuring Equity in Future Subsidized Employment Programs: The Critical Role of Nonprofits, Public Agencies, and Social Enterprises
Outlines which types of subsidized employment programs were best able to place disadvantaged workers in jobs and the implications for future subsidized employment programs.
Race and the Work of the Future: Advancing Workforce Equity in the United States
Makes the case that workforce equity must be at the center of building an equitable economy. This report is an invitation to policymakers, business leaders, philanthropy, and community organizations to come together to dismantle systemic barriers to opportunity for people of color, scale innovative training and credentialing models, invest in automation resilience strategies to ensure that working people can be uplifted rather than dislocated by technological advancements, and insist on high standards of job quality for all workers.
Race, Risk, and Workforce Equity in the Coronavirus Economy
In order to inform equity-focused relief and recovery strategies, this report offers a comprehensive, disaggregated analysis of the labor market effects of the coronavirus in the United States and ten metro regions: Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Nashville, San Francisco, and Seattle. This analysis was produced through a partnership between the National Equity Atlas and Burning Glass Technologies.
Re-Imagining a Bay Area Workforce System Grounded in Racial and Gender Equity
This report examines how women and people of color have made untold contributions across industries, despite being denied basic rights and fair wages due to racism, sexism, and xenophobia baked into our workforce policies and practices. These injustices are amplified by the COVID-19 crisis, and the report shows why we will need a workforce system designed specifically to meet the needs of marginalized groups in order to have a just and inclusive recovery.
Skills for an Inclusive Economic Recovery
Skills for an Inclusive Economic Recovery is a set of generation-defining investments in inclusive skills policy that contribute to addressing the disproportionate impact of the economic crisis on communities who have long suffered inequities.
The Roadmap for Racial Equity: An Imperative for Workforce Advocates
This report builds the case for creating a racially inclusive workforce and recommends both state and federal workforce development policies that advance racial equity. It recognizes that the challenges faced by people of color with deep generational roots in the United States and the challenges faced by immigrants sometimes differ; however, the policy agenda included here aims to address inequities for people of color from both immigrant and non-immigrant backgrounds.
The Roadmap for Racial Equity: Special Edition for Immigrants and English Learners
This fact sheet recognizes that the challenges faced by people of color with deep generational roots in the United States and the challenges faced by immigrants sometimes differ. The policies highlighted focus on addressing inequities for people of color who are immigrants and English learners.
Workforce Matters Racial Equity Resources Hub Padlet
This collection of resources was compiled from Workforce Matters Racial Equity 2020-2021 Learning Lab discussions. It includes reports, briefs, webinars, and other tools that center equity in various aspects of workforce development work. For more information see: workforce-matters.org.
A Racial Equity Framework for Workforce Development Funders
This framework is intended to identify concrete ways for funders in the workforce development field to interrupt the systemic racism embedded within the field’s practices, policies, and programs; the institution of philanthropy; our own organizations; and the labor market in communities we serve.
Applying a Racial Equity Lens to Digital Literacy
This fact sheet outlines how workers of color are affected by digital skill gaps. Draws on U.S. data from a respected international assessment known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Survey of Adult Skills.
Advancing Equity Through Workforce Intermediary Partnerships
This report details examples of the breakthroughs that workforce intermediary partnerships are making to ensure employers have the skilled workforce needed for today’s economy and workers are well-positioned on pathways to family-sustaining careers.
Advancing Equity in the Bay Area: A Blueprint for Action
This report, produced in partnership with PolicyLink, Burning Glass Technologies, and ReWork the Bay, offers a comprehensive analysis of long-standing racial gaps in labor market outcomes, the economic impacts of Covid-19, and the racial equity implications of automation.
Ensuring Equity in Future Subsidized Employment Programs: The Critical Role of Nonprofits, Public Agencies, and Social Enterprises
Outlines which types of subsidized employment programs were best able to place disadvantaged workers in jobs and the implications for future subsidized employment programs.
Race and the Work of the Future: Advancing Workforce Equity in the United States
Makes the case that workforce equity must be at the center of building an equitable economy. This report is an invitation to policymakers, business leaders, philanthropy, and community organizations to come together to dismantle systemic barriers to opportunity for people of color, scale innovative training and credentialing models, invest in automation resilience strategies to ensure that working people can be uplifted rather than dislocated by technological advancements, and insist on high standards of job quality for all workers.
Race, Risk, and Workforce Equity in the Coronavirus Economy
In order to inform equity-focused relief and recovery strategies, this report offers a comprehensive, disaggregated analysis of the labor market effects of the coronavirus in the United States and ten metro regions: Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Nashville, San Francisco, and Seattle. This analysis was produced through a partnership between the National Equity Atlas and Burning Glass Technologies.
Re-Imagining a Bay Area Workforce System Grounded in Racial and Gender Equity
This report examines how women and people of color have made untold contributions across industries, despite being denied basic rights and fair wages due to racism, sexism, and xenophobia baked into our workforce policies and practices. These injustices are amplified by the COVID-19 crisis, and the report shows why we will need a workforce system designed specifically to meet the needs of marginalized groups in order to have a just and inclusive recovery.
Skills for an Inclusive Economic Recovery
Skills for an Inclusive Economic Recovery is a set of generation-defining investments in inclusive skills policy that contribute to addressing the disproportionate impact of the economic crisis on communities who have long suffered inequities.
The Roadmap for Racial Equity: An Imperative for Workforce Advocates
This report builds the case for creating a racially inclusive workforce and recommends both state and federal workforce development policies that advance racial equity. It recognizes that the challenges faced by people of color with deep generational roots in the United States and the challenges faced by immigrants sometimes differ; however, the policy agenda included here aims to address inequities for people of color from both immigrant and non-immigrant backgrounds.
The Roadmap for Racial Equity: Special Edition for Immigrants and English Learners
This fact sheet recognizes that the challenges faced by people of color with deep generational roots in the United States and the challenges faced by immigrants sometimes differ. The policies highlighted focus on addressing inequities for people of color who are immigrants and English learners.
Workforce Matters Racial Equity Resources Hub Padlet
This collection of resources was compiled from Workforce Matters Racial Equity 2020-2021 Learning Lab discussions. It includes reports, briefs, webinars, and other tools that center equity in various aspects of workforce development work. For more information see: workforce-matters.org.
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