Getting workforce development right
Strategies must respond to market while also extending opportunity
IN MARCH 2017, Boston Foundation CEO Paul Grogan wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe titled “A Tight Labor Market is a Terrible Thing to Waste.” Since that time, when Boston’s unemployment rate was 3.3 percent, the labor market has only tightened. At the end of 2018, Greater Boston’s unemployment rate was below 2.5 percent.(...)