California Forward
First there was the City of San Bernardino. Then there was Patterson. Now, you can add the Tracy to the list of places where internet retailer Amazon is calling home.
read moreA recent report indicates that the urgent problem of high youth unemployment exists because there is a disconnect among employers, educators and youth.
read moreLast week, John Myers moderated a frank discussion at Cal State Sacramento about what drastic measures are needed to get our state back on track. Here’s what was said.
read moreCalifornia’s economic recovery is unquestionably hampered by the 850,000 people aged 16-24 who are neither in school nor working
read moreAs recently as a decade ago, the sprawling redwood north of California, a region the size of Connecticut and New Jersey combined, had no broadband access, difficult transportation challenges across hundreds of miles of mountains, and a generation of workers who found themselves tempted to tell their children to move elsewhere to find good jobs.
read moreWith the Legislature out of session and the general election still a few weeks away, the airwaves have been dominated by talk of sky-high prices at the pump. We do a mini round-up so you have an idea as to what’s happening and where we go from here.
read moreAs 8 million people watched Felix Baumgartner jump from 128,000 feet above sea level, it made us realize what this indicates about the state of education and innovation in California and America.
read moreA conference at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management tackled the effects of early education on job skills and workforce issues
read moreWhat is becoming more apparent nationally and statewide is the skills gap that exists between available jobs and workers to fill them. And it’s the Community Colleges that are trying to leap into that breach and improve our workforce training in the country.
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