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Companies need workers and workers need the skills to fit the open jobs of today. The Talent Finance Initiative is one of the best plans out there – outlining how to bring public and private funds together to train workers for the future while decreasing the cost of education. PBS’s Hari Sreenivasan talks to two of its designers – Jason Tyszko and Peter Beard – about this model that results in less debt, great career opportunities, and, hopefully, a better return on investment for workers and employers.

The nature of work is changing rapidly and dramatically. Advances in technology are eliminating some jobs, transforming others, and, in some cases, creating jobs we never even imagined. In WorkingNation’s weekly podcast Work in Progress, we speak with leaders in business, education, government, and nonprofits about what’s being done to train and reskill American men and women to ensure they can compete for, and qualify for, good-paying, in-demand jobs today and in the future. Work in Progress is hosted and executive produced by WorkingNation Editor-in-Chief Ramona Schindelheim. Produced by...

Work Green, Earn Green hosted by Jay Tipton, a former WorkingNation producer and current environmental protection scholar, who is on a mission to not only find out what a green job is, but where they are today, where they’ll be in the future, and how American workers can land one.