
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.
Why Aren’t U.S. Workers Working?
By Mary C. Daly, Joseph H. Pedtke, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Annemarie SchweinertResearch by the San Francisco Fed suggests that policy interventions to reduce the structural barriers that keep many women on the sidelines could bring millions of prime-age Americans into the labor force.
Investment in Skills Training Is an Investment in the Economy
By Patrick T. HarkerAt a book launch for Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers, Harker discussed the overarching theme, “that everyone involved in workforce development should start thinking like investors looking for long-term rewards, rather than lenders thinking only about short-term risks.”
Welcoming Remarks at the Investing in America's Workforce Book Launch Event
By John C. WilliamsPresident Williams discusses the importance of workforce development for sustainable economic growth and example policies and programs.
Oklahoma Career Expo Week
The Kansas City Fed hosted five events to connect youth with career skills and opportunities during the Oklahoma Career Expo Week, November 12-18.
Regional Firms Struggling to Hire Hourly Workers
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.