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- Closing America's Skills Gap: Lessons from the Carolinas and Learn and Earn Partnerships
Huffington Post, August 22, 2011
In this Huffington Post article, Donna Klein, Executive Chair and CEO of Corporate Voices, provides commentary on a recent U.S. House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training field hearing in South Carolina. The article discusses the role of higher education in job creation, and the special importance of cultivating partnerships between businesses and higher education to strengthen workforce skills, close the skills gap and increase America's economic competitiveness.
- Education For Business’ Sake
Chief Learning Officer Magazine, July 26, 2011
Ladan Nikravan writes about the implications of economic downturns for workers and how employers can help their employees balance work with going back to school to boost their skills and labor market competitiveness. The article quotes Donna Klein, Corporate Voices' executive chair and CEO, and cites its report, "A Profile of Young Workers in Low-Income Families."
- The Benefits of Flextime (to employers)
BNET.com, July 22, 2011
In this BNET.com article, Laurie Tarkan discusses the positive business impacts of workplace flexibility, citing Corporate Voices for Working Families' recently updated report, "Business Impacts of Flexibility: An Imperative for Expansion."
- Filling Skills Gaps through Apprenticeships
Human Resource Executive Online, July 20, 2011
Human Resources Executive Online explores the role that apprenticeships can play in helping employers address the skills gap, and the challenges that exist to implementing apprenticeships. The article highlights "Across the Great Divide," a report Corporate Voices published in partnership with Civic Enterprisis and in association with the Institute for a Competitive Workforce and Peter D. Hart Research Associates.
- Workplace Flexibility Helps Businesses Compete
White House Office of Public Engagement Blog, June 22, 2011
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, writes about Corporate Voices' leadership on workplace flexibility on the White House Office of Public Engagement blog.
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Washington, D.C. (May 23, 2013) – As the nation pauses to honor its military service members this Memorial Day, Corporate Voices for Working Families has published an important new resource designed to assist breastfeeding and nursing mothers serving in the United States military.
Bookmark/Search this post with:FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – April 9, 2013 – This year marks 50 years since President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and yet today, women still earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man.
Tuesday, April 9 is National Equal Pay Day, representing the date in the current year through which women must work to match what men earned in the previous year. It reminds us of the work still ahead in order to achieve equity and an America where everyone gets an equal day's pay for an equal day's work.
Bookmark/Search this post with:Washington, D.C. -- Corporate Voices for Working Families honored three outstanding partners with a 2013 Visionary Award during the organization’s Annual Partners Meeting, March 20-22, in Washington, D.C.
Bookmark/Search this post with:On November 28, 2012, Corporate Voices hosted a webinar outlining its Public/Private Collaboration on Diversity & Inclusion with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and WFD Consulting. The collaboration is bringing together corporate and federal diversity leaders to discuss the obstacles and opportunities that exist around five critical diversity and inclusion issues: middle managers, senior management communications, data and measurement, work/life and mentoring.
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- 04/10/2013Data Supports Corporate Voices’ Ongoing Efforts to Strengthen America’s Businesses and Job-Seeking Young Adults Through Smarter Workforce Training Investments Last week, Demos, a New York-based non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization, released its report, Stuck: Young America’s Persistent Jobs Crisis, highlighting the current youth employment crisis in the United States and examining how the […]
- 03/28/2013Corporate Voices for Working Families’ 2013 Annual Partners Meeting put the spotlight last week on corporate leadership beyond the workplace, providing presentations rich in content, lively discussions and opportunities for attendees to network with other business leaders and policymakers.
- 02/27/2013The decision by Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer to end the option for Yahoo! employees to work at home should matter to all working families and businesses. In one move by a highly visible executive and company, the decision threatens advances made over the last several decades in the workplace that have benefited working families and […]