I was browsing through the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program website today (BMPP) exploring their State of Metropolitan America data maps – lots of great information about demographic and social trends impacting the country. Here are two maps I generated comparing Hispanic and non-Hispanic White Median Hourly Wages (click maps to enlarge): Startling. In regards to…
Excellent thoughts via Ben Casnocha regarding the realities of today’s jobs and careers. Indeed, much has changed and Ben does a great job of illustrating his point using a career “escalator.” Today, reaching the next level in one’s career means more than waiting in line and taking the escalator up: What’s replaced the career escalator?…
What’s the future of work? I came across this incredible video today (h/t Luis Suarez) that captures what I think the future of work will look like – and what it is for me – now. Over the last few years, I’ve developed multiple identities and/or multiple jobs: college instructor, blogger, entrepreneur, researcher, community activist,…
Unemployment numbers for the Latino workforce are still dismal but at least the numbers are encouraging. Latino unemployment fell 2% between December 2010 – December 2011. Not bad – but certainly not great.
MoneyBox graphic tells the story.
My good friend Murray Mann at Latinos at Work shares great advice for Latino professionals for 2012. He also describes the “prominent” players involved in helping this occur: Employers must be competitive locally and/or globally and have set significant goals for Latino recruitment, retention, and upward mobility. Colleges and Universities are evolving programs to address the needs…
How is the economic environment impacting college recruiting? Interesting article via DealBook about Occupy Wall Street protestors demonstrating against banks coming to recruit on-campus. … a junior at Yale who attended, said that although he hoped to land a job on Wall Street upon graduation, he did not necessarily plan to spend his entire career…
The Economist digs into why women still haven’t reached the professional success of men – in all aspects of the organizational workplace: And despite sheaves of equal-pay legislation, women get paid less than men for comparable work. That is partly because they often work in different fields, and many of them are part-timers with lower…
This is a great study by Stanford University’s Center for Education Policy Analysis regarding academic achievement and family income. The results shed additional light on the impact of parental income and student achievement. Interesting stuff. Finally, the growing income achievement gap does not appear to be a result of a growing achievement gap between children…
College grads hoping to make it to Wall Street as consultants are facing the realities of the current economy: Several large firms are not recruiting new entry-level analysts for their investment banking divisions this fall, having filled their entire incoming class with last summer’s interns. At the University of Pennsylvania, whose Wharton School is the…
