This piece discusses the need for upskilling in the public sector workforce. Private sector workers often enjoy more investment in their skill development and the piece argues for more investment in public sector upskilling and addresses the barriers to realizing this goal.

This piece provides a summary and highlights from “Job Quality in the Fields: Improving Farm Work in the US,” an Opportunity in America event that highlighted the challenges of agricultural workers and ideas for improving their working conditions.

This interview with Mowa Haile, President of Sky Blue Builders and CEO of Apex Underground, discusses his experience and observations on the conversions of those companies to employee ownership through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

Shared Success, a demonstration project run by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program, leverages the trusted relationships of community development financial institutions (CDFIs) to improve job quality for workers while helping small business owners strengthen their businesses. This piece discusses findings from a portion of the Shared Success Project, which helps to understand business perceptions of job quality, identify strategies to encourage the adoption of job quality elements, and define recommendations to involve financial institutions in this process.

This piece provides an overview of job quality challenges affecting LGBTQ+ workers, including economic need, discrimination, and barriers to career advancement. The piece also contextualizes these challenges in the current landscape of anti-LGBTQ+ policies being passed in the United States.

This piece provides a summary and highlights from “Good Work in the Gig Economy: Building a Sustainable App-based Economy,” an Opportunity in America event EOP hosted in 2023.

This piece provides a summary of The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone’s Work, a book talk EOP hosted with MIT Professor Zeynep Ton in 2023.

This piece reflects on the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program’s event “Sustaining Ownership: The Promise of Employee Ownership Trusts,” which introduced viewers to Employee Ownership Trusts and their potential to increase job quality for workers.

This piece summarizes the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program’s event “Unstable Schedules: Unwrapping the Challenges and Solutions for Service Workers,” during which panelists discussed the importance of stable scheduling practices for job quality.

This piece is an introduction to job quality in the US food supply chain, with a focus on poultry and meat processing, and on farm labor. The piece also highlights the prevalence of child labor in these industries and the elevated risk for many immigrant workers in the food supply chain.