Brent Messenger

Google's 'two-tier' workforce reveals a dependence on contract and temporary help and highlights the need to change how companies engage with independent workers

A handful of US cities are developing programs to attract skilled remote workers to diversify their economies. Many more should.

Many of the systems that exist to bring education to workers, and ultimately to the businesses that rely on them, are broken.

Business growth is slowed by the shortage of skilled workers, even as millions of workers are underemployed and looking for more opportunity.

People need better options than a lifetime of debt because they went to college or a lifetime of stunted earning because they couldn't afford to.