The Middle Skills Gap Initiative will work to change this on two fronts: first, by educating business, education, and policy leaders about the economic and social costs of failing to close this skills gap; and, second, by creating programs that increase connections between employers and educators with the purpose of closing the skills gap in order to improve America's competitive position and helping put millions of young Americans on path to the middle class. (gse.harvard.edu)
In our new Education & Economic Mobility Program, we begin with the premise that post-secondary attainment is the surest path to the middle class. (joycefdn.org)
Governor Cuomo is leading the national effort to create a clean energy economy that benefits our environment and establishes new paths to the middle class for working people. (nyserda.ny.gov)