Future of Work

Nearly 9 in 10 voters believe the U.S. should provide skills retraining at no cost to any worker who loses their job due to automation. Yet the U.S. has virtually no comprehensive state or national policy framework to work with industry to help re-skill and retain current workers in their jobs.

Faced with these potentially dramatic shifts in labor market demand, and the potential for these shifts to worsen inequality, the U.S. needs a fundamental rethinking of our state and national policies around upskilling current workers and helping displaced workers transition to new opportunities.