Building Blocks Toward the Big Blur
State Policy Framework This framework describes steps states can take toward adopting the Big Blur’s four key components, plus four types of policy environments states encounter in creating a reimagined grade-11-14 learn-and-work system. Related Content
Are Manufacturing Jobs Hazardous and Declining or High-Tech and Resurging?
Understanding Job Quality in the Technology Sector This resource applies JFF’s Quality Jobs Framework to the manufacturing industry using national data that examines key components of quality jobs. Related Content
Toward the Big Blur: Reshaping Teaching for Grades 11-14
Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) vision for the Big Blur calls for entirely new educational institutions and systems to better prepare 16-to-20-year-olds for college and careers. This paper examines how instructor preparation, state accountability systems,…
Use Cases for Generative AI in Workforce Development
New JFF research highlights current and potential uses for generative AI in workforce development and identifies existing tools and market opportunities. Endnotes 1 Research methods: We interviewed 36 people. The sample was made up of training…
No Dead Ends Policy Road Map
Policy Recommendations for Ensuring Boundless Opportunities at School, at Work, and in Life No Dead Ends offers a common-sense, field-tested policy road map for re-engineering our education and workforce systems so everyone has boundless opportunities…
JFF's Workforce Transformation Policy Council
The Workforce Transformation Policy Council leverages the expansive vision of future-focused workforce development leaders to transform federal workforce policy for tomorrow’s economy. Results With insights drawn from nine focus group conversations and over 20 individual…
Is Health Care, the Fastest- Growing Sector, A Good Career Path?
Understanding Job Quality in the Health Care Sector This resource applies JFF’s Quality Jobs Framework to the health care industry using national data that examines key components of quality jobs. Related Content
Tech Jobs Are in High Demand, but Are They High Quality?
This resource applies JFF’s Quality Jobs Framework to the tech sector using national data that examines key components of quality jobs.
Disrupt the Divide
JFF’s Disrupt the Divide initiative supports postsecondary institutions in increasing Black learners’ success in accessing and completing programs that lead to high-wage jobs in growing industries. Results The six participating community colleges will partner with…