Data, Analysis, and Strategies to Strengthen Your Community's Workforce

About this episode

The episode discusses strategies to strengthen community workforces through insights on labor market trends.

How resilient is your community's workforce? A strong, adaptive workforce is a key driver of community stability. During this Connecting Communities webinar, Bill Rodgers, vice president of Community Development Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, presented on current trends in the labor market. A panel of workforce experts and practitioners delved into actionable strategies that you can implement to proactively build and maintain a more resilient workforce in your community.

People in this episode

Guest: Bill Rodgers

Topics covered

• workforce development
• community stability
• labor market trends
• resilience
• actionable strategies

Keywords

• community workforce
• resilience
• labor market
• workforce strategies
• community development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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