Adult education programs are crucial to alleviating this gap and helping all Americans achieve economic and social mobility. Educate & Elevate is a national campaign to educate America about the importance of adult education in advancing career and college readiness, and making our workforce more globally competitive.
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On March 6 and 7, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the U.S.
With support from General Mills, preventing food waste and feeding people facing hunger is proving to be easier than ever thanks to Feeding America’s MealConnect application.
Although U.S. high school graduation rates are at an all-time high, many employees enter the workforce without the skills that are truly needed to succeed. Recent studies show that essential soft skills such as punctuality, organization, and interpersonal communication are just as important as the hard skills, which now are seen as a basic minimum necessary in order to operate in a particular workplace.
There is a strong business case for advancing gender equality.
The world is changing in profound ways. This change has brought with it growth, opportunity, and job creation, as well as new risks for workers and communities. For many of these risks, we are ill equipped to manage them. These are the risks that have fueled economic anxiety and job insecurity.
As consumers become more socially conscious, they are drawn to companies that pursue purpose, not just profit. Investing in women can serve as a promising way of optimizing business operations, attracting new customers, and improving livelihoods.
Meet Nadege: Nadege lives in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti with her three children and partner.
To quote Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar set around 45 B.C., “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.” For all of history, people have been trying to aggregate human attention to sell them something. And the media industry is no different.
On September 21, on the side of the UN General Assembly, a diverse collection of business leaders representing different sectors and industries, joined together to show their commitment to the Global Goals and to ‘