Author: Michael Bernick

We are currently in the Days of Awe, the 10 day period between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, the Day of

Virginia Hamilton started in the workforce field in 1978, at the Stockton EDD office, as an Employment Program Representative (job placement staff). Over the past

(A longer version of this posting will be appearing in the journal of the California State Library, which houses the collected papers of Mr. Bernick).

The decision last week by Tesla Motors to locate its battery factory in Nevada attracted the most media attention among economics stories, and generated a

 (Editor’s Note: The following piece by Michael Bernick appeared in Fox and Hounds Daily on September 18, 2013. We are re-posting in memory of Ms.

As we come to Labor Day 2014, it is time to consider where we have come since last year’s Labor Day and where we might

This summer, Congress enacted the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) which governs the $3 billion or so spent each year by the federal government

In 1993, novelist and California native Joan Didion traveled to the City of Lakewood in Southern California to report on its changing employment and culture.

Over the past four years, we have written frequently about major shifts in the structure of employment in California: the breakdown in full time employment