From business exports to veteran care − here’s what some of the 35,000 federal workers in the Philadelphia region do
By: Todd Aagaard, Professor of Law, Villanova School of Law Layoffs of federal employees and cutbacks to federal agencies have direct consequences for the Philadelphia area. I am a law professor at Villanova University outside Philadelphia, and my research focuses on the work of the administrative agencies that compose the federal government. I believe that understanding the federal government’s presence in […]
Goodwill created a new high school for dropouts − it led to better jobs and higher wages
By: Patrick Turner, Associate Research Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame When Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana realized most of the clients in its job-training program lacked a high school diploma, it set out to address the issue. In 2010, with the help of per-pupil funding from the state, the nonprofit opened The Excel […]