News & stories on skills and careers

Workforce Pell unlocks federal aid for 8–15 week credentials. Here's what it means for educators, employers, and the students caught in the middle.

Stanford finds a 19% AI-driven employment gap for workers 22–25. Here's what it means for education, hiring, and the future of early-career workers.

Colleges mandate AI skills, Gen Z pivots to trades, and re-employment slows—three signals reshaping the education-to-work pipeline in 2026.

Colleges mandate AI skills, Gen Z pivots to trades, and re-employment slows—three signals reshaping the education-to-work pipeline in 2026.

Claims stayed near historic lows while job searches lengthened. That divergence is where AI is quietly restructuring who gets hired.

The U.S. shed 23,000 nonfarm jobs against expectations of 80,000 to 95,000, and participation slid to 61.4% — its lowest in over five years.

Claims at 197,000 and continuing claims falling: a market neither breaking down nor opening up, heading into a decisive jobs report.

BlackRock, Google, Ford and Carhartt launched a trades alliance in a single week. The AI buildout is forcing a reckoning with the trades gap.

Sixteen Nobel laureates signed a warning about AI's speed. The harder question for educators is what acting now actually looks like.

A New York Times investigation and June’s 57,000 hires point the same way: the AI transition is arriving through hiring, not layoffs.

AI is raising the bar for job-readiness faster than most systems can respond. Here’s what this week’s data means for educators, employers, and learners.

A video walkthrough of interview best practices and preparation.