New Articles from Brookings

December 11, 2020

The Heldrich Center is pleased to share two new articles from a Brookings series on racial justice and worker mobility.

Desegregating Work and Learning through ‘Earn-and-Learn’ Models, by Annelies Goger, focuses on systems-level changes to expand earn-and-learn strategies to address long-standing patterns of separate and unequal access to higher education and quality jobs — building institutional infrastructure that is designed for learners who are working (blended learning), facilitating learning progressions and career switching through accreditation and articulation of earn-and-learn programs, and unleashing innovation by incentivizing employers to strengthen workplace cultures of learning and engage in more inclusive talent recruitment and development practices.

National Service can Connect America’s Young People to Opportunity and Community — and Promote Work of Real Social Value, by Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman, focuses on how we can expand and improve upon existing community service models to provide more opportunities for a diverse range of young people to obtain work experience and earn income, while also strengthening much-needed community infrastructure. The proposal calls for increasing funding and pay to ensure that young people can afford to participate in the program regardless of income, and it lays out specific types of community service jobs it can help create.