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National Journal Was Utah's Much-Heralded Immigration Law All It Promised?
Three years after the law's passage, undocumented immigrants still fear deportation.
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National Journal Salt Lake City's Secret to Escaping the Recession
With the LDS Church's financing of a huge downtown development, "in Salt Lake, the cranes kept moving," says Mayor Ralph Becker.
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National Journal Should the U.S. Adopt the German Model of Apprenticeships?
The best youth apprenticeship programs blend traditional high school with skills training — and produce employable graduates.
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National Journal How to Get Inner-City Teenagers on a Career Track
Boston's summer-jobs program puts thousands of teens in professional environments, giving them mentors and experience.
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National Journal What Happens When American Teenagers Can't Find Work
Employment rates for teenagers are at the lowest levels since World War II. And that could hurt their longterm job prospects.
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National Journal Don't Give Up on the Long-Term Unemployed
Solutions exist to help those who have been out of the workforce for long periods. Why aren't we trying them?
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National Journal Connecticut Is Latest State to Raise Minimum Wage, but Is It Enough to Help?
It's still really hard — if not impossible — to live on $8 an hour.
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National Journal Millennial Entrepreneurs: 'Why Not Me?'
With employment in traditional career fields more uncertain and barriers to launching businesses lowered, many millennials look to work for themselves.
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National Journal Former Atlanta Mayor: 'I Regret That I Didn't Do More'
Shirley Franklin reflects on the difficulty of combating economic inequality when times are good and voters have other priorities.
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National Journal Obama's Incredibly Underwhelming Executive Orders
Recent White House moves to help workers may be well-intentioned, but they will achieve little.
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National Journal Does Your STEM Degree Have a Shelf Life?
Americans pursuing science, tech, engineering, and math careers for career stability and higher pay are at risk of being pushed out of their fields in favor of younger workers.
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National Journal What Can Venture Capitalists Do for Recently Released Prisoners?
New York state is about to find out.
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National Journal The Ugly Truth Behind Obama's Budget
By proposing to expand the earned-income tax credit to workers without children, the White House acknowledges that low wages aren't sufficient for many Americans.
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National Journal Refueled Domestic Automakers Poised to Lead Detroit's Revival
While you weren't looking, Detroit's car companies pulled off a global comeback with better vehicles and innovative technology.
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National Journal Can Detroit Rebuild Its Middle Class?
Downtown Detroit is brimming with new condos, start-ups, and breweries. But for the city to make a comeback, it needs to repopulate itself with a new middle class.
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National Journal Is Dan Gilbert Detroit's New Superhero?
Stop talking about how to save Detroit. Local billionaire Dan Gilbert is playing up the city's strengths to make it vibrant once again.
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Reuters Mike Duggan: I Can Save Detroit
The new mayor praises his city's entrepreneurial spirit. Is his optimism useful, delusional, or both?
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National Journal Inside Detroit's Nascent Start-Up Culture
Forget Mark Zuckerberg. The entrepreneurial kids of Detroit want to make money while doing good.
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National Journal Why Detroit's New Mayor Thinks His City Is Poised for an Economic Reinvention
Detroit may be broke with a poor record of public safety and blight, but that's not stopping its recently elected mayor from marveling at its entrepreneurial spirit.
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National Journal One City's Quest to Erase the Gender Pay Gap
Boston is trying to ensure its female workers earn as much as men by asking local companies to rethink perks such as workplace flexibility and child care.
