The Milken Institute and CalMatters are hosting a series of conversations exploring California’s recovery from recession and progress towards an economy centered on equity, mobility, and opportunity.
California is looking ahead at a future of work that seeks to reimagine traditional economic development approaches that prioritize diversity and inclusion while also identifying new ways to fund and structure advancements in workforce and infrastructure development, capital access, and more. It is a challenging prospect with rapidly changing technologies, evolving workforce models, and fewer than half of California workers in quality jobs that provide a living wage.
California’s Green and Blue Jobs
Despite significant advances in renewable energy, biotech, and life sciences jobs, the journey from generating breakthrough discoveries to creating accessible jobs across green and blue industries remains difficult to quantify. Industries...
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The Great Reshuffling and Beyond
One thing has been made abundantly clear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Californians are quitting their jobs at unprecedented rates. The recent job reports only continue to solidify this notion. Whether searching for better pay, more...
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The Post-COVID Recovery: California's Lagging Employment Rate
While employment in much of the United States has recovered successfully from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, California remains one of the few states that has struggled to recoup jobs at a pace on par with the rest of the nation...
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Equity in Infrastructure Development: The Digital Divide
For too long, the need for national infrastructure solutions has been limited to conversations of roads, bridges and stalemates in Congress. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the financial circumstances of many communities just as high...
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