August 4, 2025
Nonprofit Quarterly: Building Together: How to Create a Worker-Led Workforce Development System
Recent worker polling confirms that workers feel vulnerable—and they feel that public policy does not serve them.
In places like Detroit and the San Francisco Bay Area, workers pour themselves into one, two, or sometimes three jobs, yet many feel insecure or unacknowledged.
Public workforce development systems cannot solve these shortfalls by themselves. But creating better pathways for workers to access jobs is one piece of a broader vision of systems that help working people get the jobs they deserve while meeting the needs of area businesses.
