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US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook
“We’re All Doing It” Last month the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched a Facebook page. Other federal agencies maintain them too, but DOL hasn’t really been out-front in implementing the Administration’s early commitment to communication, transparency, and participation. While Facebook is just one means of demonstrating this commitment (the Department, and Secretary of Labor [...]
Posted in Gov20, Social Change, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Uncategorized, Work, Work and Learning 2.0 Also tagged citizen engagement, Department of Labor, DOL, facebook, social media, transparency, twitter, unemployment, USDOL 4 Comments
New Approaches for Young Wish-They-Were-Workers
Really high unemployment among youth. One of the most alarming bits of bad news in a sea of unwelcome statistics about unemployment, is just how bad it is for the young American worker these days. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that the proportion of young people employed in July was 51.4 percent, “the [...]
Posted in Longform, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Uncategorized, Young People Also tagged facebook, social media, unemployment, workforce, Young People, youth Leave a comment
The Future of Work and Learning is Today
Learning Online Pays Off Students, educators and others can access syllabi, lecture notes, audio and video for almost every MIT course offered today, and over 50 million have done so. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of education has done a meta-analysis that shows that students who take all or part of their classes online generally perform [...]
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Labor Market Policy: It’s About More Than Skills