
Investing in America's Workforce
Explore contemporary research, best practices and resources in the Federal Reserve System’s new book, Investing in America's Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers. Over 70 essays from more than 100 authors examine workforce development as an investment that provides returns to workers, businesses and their communities. The book is divided into three volumes: Investing in Workers, Investing in Work, and Investing in Systems for Employment Opportunity.
Investing in Job Quality
The quality of lower-wage, frontline jobs has a direct impact on employee participation, engagement and productivity. Explore investments, strategies and policies that can improve outcomes businesses and their workers.
Engaging Workforce Development: A Framework for Meeting CRA Obligations
This resource provides banks – and organizations interested in partnering with them – information on how the Community Reinvestment Act can be leveraged to support workforce development goals.
Thinking and Doing— Workforce Development for a Modern Era
Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21st Century explores how new policies and practice can meet the changing needs of workers, businesses and their communities.
Financial assistance for child care providers: Key considerations during COVID-19
By Rob Grunewald, Ben Horowitz, and Ryan NunnThis brief from the Minneapolis Fed provides a framework for child care policy choices in light of the coronavirus pandemic, a critical component of a sustained and equitable recovery.
Commuting Patterns During COVID-19 Endure; Minorities Less Likely to Work from Home
By Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin and Karel MertensThe Dallas Fed explores the impact of business closures and transitions to work from home settings on employees by differences in education and ethnicity.
“Forced Automation” by COVID-19? Early Trends from Current Population Survey Data
By Lei Ding and Julieth Saenz MolinaThis empirical study by the Philadelphia Fed explores the impact of the pandemic on workers in automatable occupations and the increased risk of permanent job loss by minorities to automation.
Ask Us Anything: Racial Equity and the Future of Workforce Development
Economic outcomes vary significantly by race. This video from the Atlanta Fed's Ask Us Anything webinar series provides an overview of racial differences in employment and outlines practices that can help workforce systems advance racial equity and drive toward a better future for communities.
Native employment during COVID-19: Hit hard in April but starting to rebound?
By Donna Feir and Charles GoldingThe Center for Indian Country Development explores how Native Americans have been impacted by job loss during the pandemic.
Investing in America's Workforce Book
Explore contemporary research, best practices, and resources in the Federal Reserve System’s new book on workforce development.Essential Skills Training for Workforce Staff
Access tools and resources used in a new one-day workshop for frontline staff to learn new perspectives and skills in the areas of employability skills, financial literacy and entrepreneurship.Investing in America’s Workforce: A Federal Reserve System Initiative
This portal provides information on the Federal Reserve System’s to reimagine and reframe workforce development efforts across the country as opportunities for productive investments.Tenth District Economic Databooks
These state-level databooks provide current economic and labor market indicators to help monitor trends and allow comparison of past information.Map Your Community
Map Your Community is a web-based mapping tool that allows workforce development professionals to explore labor market and community variables.
Kansas City Fed’s Student Board of Directors Program
The Student Board of Directors program provides an opportunity for selected youth to become knowledgeable citizens while exploring career options and developing critical leadership and employability skills.
Are You Ready to Take the Risk?
Students take a survey of their entrepreneurial potential in this lesson by the Kansas City Fed. They learn about Gallup's 10 Talents of Successful Entrepreneurs and solve a business problem using these talents.
Invest in What’s Next: Life After High School
This interactive mini-course by the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and San Francisco explores career options, personal finances and plan development.
Career Exploration and Soft Skills: Preparing Students for Success
In this activity by the Atlanta Fed, students learn about the importance of soft skills, take a self-assessment, and role play real-life situations.
Putting Your Paycheck to Work
The Kansas City Fed has developed resources for employers and educators that can be used to help employees or students understand and manage their paychecks and income.
Investing in America’s Workforce: Report on Workforce Development Needs and Opportunities
Based on 55 roundtables with local leaders across the nation, this report provides a snapshot of the workforce development sector and offers strategies for improving the human capital of America’s labor force, expanding access to jobs, and innovating funding.
Improving Employment Outcomes for Lower-Wage Workers
A summary of the 2015 Tenth District workforce development forums.
Workforce Development in the Tenth District
Workforce development leaders discuss current issues at forums held across the 10th District.
Workforce Development and the Chronically Unemployed
Series of roundtable discussions on workforce development and the chronically unemployed.Roundtables Address Workforce Development Challenges
The roundtables are part of a system-wide Federal Reserve initiative to inform program and policy responses.