An Equitable Recovery: Our Shared Responsibility

Training and education will be key to helping displaced workers find stable jobs in the post-pandemic recovery, but programs need to be reimagined with equity at the forefront to ensure that they benefit everyone equally.

Enlisting the growing number of disconnected young people to create a vibrant national service corps would solve multiple pandemic-related problems at once. One million opportunity youth could help the country—and themselves—get back on track.

The federally funded job center system needs a massive push to get all services online immediately to support the fast-growing ranks of the unemployed.

With a spike in demand for medical care, state health care and education officials must ensure that emerging talent doesn’t sit on the sidelines.

The Reimagine Workforce Preparation grants give states an opportunity to design creative strategies for recovering from the pandemic-driven economic crisis.

We have an unprecedented opportunity to fix systems and policies that were broken long before the coronavirus arrived. It’s time to take bold action and build an equitable economic recovery for all.

Finding work with a criminal record is hard, let alone during a pandemic at a time of massive unemployment. But there are steps that can be taken now to increase progress in addressing reentry challenges for the future.

It’s time to extend the social contract to the many immigrant frontline workers who are risking their lives during this pandemic. They deserve access to health care, fair wages, sick leave, and other basic rights.

One of our nation’s most successful job training strategies is at risk of losing momentum. Supporters must take action to maintain apprenticeship gains if the pandemic leads to recession.

JFF examines provisions of the $2 trillion stimulus package that provides relief aid to the students, workers, families, and communities that are grappling with the fallout of the COVID-19 crisis.

As the coronavirus pandemic exposes societal fault lines, JFF calls on business, education, and government leaders to look out for low-income individuals and families.

JFF has five ideas that address the continuing fallout as the nation struggles with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In times like these, there is a real opportunity for corporations to step out and up as leaders, using their power and influence to make a difference.

JFF urges employers to prepare for disruptions that could require layoffs by embracing ethical offboarding—an approach to downsizing that improves the future economic prospects of former employees and fosters long-term improvements in employee performance, engagement, and loyalty.

JFFLabs is featuring mission-driven startups building innovative tools and resources to help workers and businesses adapt in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The federally funded job center system needs a massive push to get all services online immediately to support the fast-growing ranks of the unemployed.

ECMC Foundation’s Partnership with ETF@JFFLabs Supports Entrepreneurs Driving Real Outcomes for Adult Learners.

After the last recession, JFF helped implement a $2 billion federal recovery effort that retrained 400,000 adults for new jobs. In the post-COVID economy, we’ll need more than good programs—we’ll need transformative change.

The next stimulus package must fund the U.S. workforce development system, whose specialized services will be more important than ever as the economy recovers from the effects of COVID-19.

As parents and professional educators, we see systemic inequities in stark relief as we help our kids school-at-home during the COVID-19 crisis. We all must act now.

Strategies to address extensive learning loss caused by COVID-19-related school closures should aim to permanently strengthen educational opportunities for low-income students.

Higher ed leaders trying to serve the needs of vulnerable students must also look ahead to a trio of challenges in a post-pandemic world.