Advancing paths to sustainable work opportunities in a changing world.
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Stagnant or falling wages. Computers and automation. Newly irrelevant job skills. For decades, the pathway to the American middle class has been obscured or blocked for too many.
Changes in the workplace, emerging technologies, globalization, and new expectations for workers mean that fewer and fewer Americans can expect to transition from high school to well-paying jobs that enable them to support families, retire with confidence, or easily bounce back from a disaster.
The RAND Lowy Family Middle-Class Pathways Center, launched as part of RAND’s Tomorrow Demands Today campaign, is committed to forging new and better paths toward equitable and sustainable work opportunities in today’s challenging world.
To assist workers, employers, and policymakers, we conduct pilot interventions, research, and analyses in three areas.
Why and how employees, education and training institutions, and workers can collaborate to make skill acquisition a priority in a rapidly changing world.
How entrepreneurship can develop the kinds of agile firms needed to successfully navigate complex landscapes, and how policy can support—or hinder—entrepreneurial success in the United States.
How workers, firms, and policymakers can anticipate and prepare for the impacts of new technologies.
