Jobs are the best way to escape poverty, but the workplace will continue to change rapidly. To ensure Illinoisans don’t lose the jobs that lift them up, job skills will need to evolve along with education.
The best way for someone to rise out of poverty is work. The poverty rate for full-time workers is under 2% nationally compared to an overall poverty rate of 11.5% for the general population.
Work is changing rapidly because of innovation, technological developments, automation, artificial intelligence and remote work. These developments displace many low-skill workers and lead to an expanding skills gap. If we […]
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