Publications and Toolkits

Corporate Voices for Working Families, along with The American Society for Training and Development,
The Conference Board, and the Society for Human Resource Management surveyed 217 employers to examine corporate practices on training newly hired graduates at three educational levels: high school, two-year college, and four-year college.

Key findings of the report,
"The Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce: Exploring the Challenges of Employer-Provided Workforce Readiness Training." The study was done by Corporate Voices, The Conference Board, The Society for Human Resource Management and the American Society for Traning and Development.

Corporate Voices and Business Roundtable are calling for a renewed emphasis on high-quality early care and education in a policy paper, "Why America Needs High-Quality Early Care and Education."

More than ever before a college credential is the dividing line between a job that pays a family-supporting income and a life of entry-level employment and poverty.

We agree that a thorough overhaul of America’s traditional school system is a necessary response to the education crisis we face today.  It is also an insufficient one.

For millions of young adults today, the greatest barrier to getting a good first job that puts them on a career path is their lack of preparedness.

America faces a profound challenge to its economic vitality and future. Too many young people today – the workforce of tomorrow – are not prepared to succeed in a knowledge-based economy.

Companies and organizations across American are competing in an ever-increasing global marketplace where workers must transition from an industrial to a knowledgebased economy. But just as the baby boomers, the most experienced workers with the greatest knowledge and skills, are retiring, the U.S. economy depends upon a strong pool of new entrants to the workforce who will continue the American traditions of innovation, research, and development.

We need to take a new and different approach to prepare our nation’s young people – our next generation of workers and citizens – to be successful in school, on the job and throughout life.

The U.S. economy depends upon a strong pool of new entrants to the workforce who will continue the American traditions of innovation, research and development.  Improving workforce readiness of young people is a growing priority within the business community.