Too many workforce efforts fail too many workers. Workforce systems particularly fail to meet the needs of jobseekers who have been failed by multiple systems — the justice involved, immigrants, and those without a bachelor’s degree — and systemic racism and sexism within workforce development directs people of color and women into low-wage work and away from the training programs and services that can connect them to quality jobs and opportunities to advance economically.
The Better Careers initiative supports efforts to build a more inclusive, equitable, and resilient workforce system that promotes racial and gender equity and access to economic opportunity for low-wage workers by:
We’ll engage grantees in 2023 to co-develop specific impact goals based on the following: