A continuing storyline of the California economy is the enormous job creation and job destruction that goes on below the surface of the monthly job
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there are more than 600,000 job openings on an average day in California in March 2016.
Our Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) regional commissioner, Richard Holden, passes along the news this week that BLS is proposing to re-start its Contingent Work
In the 1990s, Donald Cohen was one of the early researchers and explainers of California’s emerging contingent economy. As this economy grew over the next
The most recent data on California’s labor force participation rate (the percentage of California adults employed or looking for work) show the rate continuing to
Over the past few years, a main storyline in California employment has been the shift from full-time employment with expectations of stability to employment that
This week, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges will be asked to approve more than $16 million in California Apprenticeship Initiative (CAI)
(This short essay first appeared in Zocalo Public Square under the title of “How We Saved the Middle Class in the 1980s”. It draws on
(This is a slightly expanded version of an essay of mine that appeared the past Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle “Insight” section. I asked