Five local initiatives from around the U.S. offer ideas others can learn from. Profiling the winners of Atlantic Media’s Renewal Awards.
Today, we put up a new project page on The Atlantic, collecting together a series of profiles on the…
Ailing cities might have a lot to gain from nurturing enclaves of foreign-born residents, and their thriving businesses.
Students attend P-Tech programs in New York for six years. They can leave with a high-school diploma, an associate’s degree, and a chance to work for IBM.
A program in Vermont makes homeownership more accessible by covering down payments and then splitting the resulting profits.
One successful program pays for an intensive training class, subsidizes wages for the jobless, and has an 80 percent placement rate. Can it be scaled?
While some companies squeeze staff to make more money, a growing number are testing the theory that they can have both profits and happy workers.