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The Illinois Workforce & Workforce Policy for the Next Decade
October 16, 2013 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm CDT
Free
GCI Innovate Chicago Lecture Series
“The Illinois Workforce & Workforce Policy for the Next Decade”
Howard Wial
Executive Director
Center for Urban Economic Development (CUED)
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Great Cities Institute
412 South Peoria Street
Suite 400, 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
It has become a truism that Americans will require increasing amounts of formal education to become prepared for the jobs of the future. Is this truism true? Howard Wial will examine the changes in the workforce, jobs, and education and training needs that are likely to occur in Illinois over the course of the next decade and will discuss the implications of these changes for workforce policy.
Howard Wial is executive director of the Center for Urban Economic Development (CUED) and associate professor of urban planning and policy at UIC. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on manufacturing and urban and regional economic development. He was previously a resident fellow at Brookings Institution, research director of two other think tanks, an economist at several U.S. government agencies, and a faculty member at several colleges and universities. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
To request disability accomodations, please contact Christiana Kinder, Great Cities Institute, (312) 996-8700, christia@uic.edu
