Despite headlines Of #AI induced #layoff waves at Fortune 500 companies, recent #jobs numbers point to a labor market that seems to be bolstered by healthy rates of job creation. Unemployment has stayed between 4.3-4.5% since last summer.

During #APIMonth, Joyce Hwang and I interviewed Madalene Xuan-Trang Mielke, CEO of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies for @newamerica.org's digital magazine The Thread What Do #AsianAmerican and #PacificIslander #Voters Want in 2026? www.newamerica.org/insights/wha...

This week's @forbes.com story dropped today New $25 million grant #funding program in the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration for #AI upskilling. It's not new funding but reconstitution of #three previously sunset programs following EDA #reauthorization in 2024. Link below!

As a bass player and jazz aficionado, I never really get tired of going to #NOLA, but this time was special. Thanks to the New Growth Innovation Network (NGIN) for a great #CityScapes 2026 summit convening #econdev leaders from small and mid-sized cities and for including me in your closing plenary.

This is some exciting and frankly grounding work from our New Practice Lab. Check it out!

🆕For @Forbes: 80+ Chambers Of Commerce Raise Alarm On STEM Talent Exodus, R&D Funding It's not just universities - business is getting more engaged in federal R&D advocacy and voicing concerns around #STEM talent loss due to funding uncertainty www.forbes.com/sites/shalin... #scipol #scipolicy

Here here. Workforce funding, R&D funding, Econ Dec/industrial policy to what end? Not typically the end goal taxpayers who underwrite those investments would rank as priority #1 Oftentimes our end goals are well-meaning but unimaginative and myopic. Looking forward to this!

New for @forbes.com: Inside NSF's partnership with DOL, USDA, and SBA to help a broad constellation of actors better coordinate their attempts to foster AI literacy and workforce readiness -- unis, CCs, labor unions, K-12, museums, industry associations, libraries, www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

New for @forbes.com: A non-profit foundation for the U.S. National Science Foundation could allow billions in new philanthropic investments to augment federal funding for R&D and STEM education. @scipolguy.bsky.social @techiewonk.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social

Following the launch of our first-of-its-kind national survey last week, @newamerica.org & the Association of Community College Trustees is pleased to announce our national Presidents-Trustee #AdvisoryCommittee on Economic and Workforce Development! www.newamerica.org/insights/new...

More than $156 billion in proposed data center investments have been blocked or delayed across at least 17 states in 2024-2025.

Study the past if you wish to understand the present and predict the future, they say. Recently been toiling in the history of electrification, given AI musings. This was among the first electric signs in NYC in 1910 - a 40' Heinz Pickle ad. I'm struck by its international orientation!

APLU is accepting nominations for the Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award! This award honors leaders who have demonstrated extraordinary achievement in advancing the mission of public & land-grant universities. Submit a nomination by May 15: bit.ly/3QaYYUF

What does it actually take to build a workforce system that can keep pace with a rapidly changing labor market and economy? Coordination among K-12, higher ed, industry, econ dev, and the workforce system. Sounds easy, but never seems to happen. www.newamerica.org/insights/lev...

Honored to have been named a Big Bets Fellow by the Rockefeller Foundation this week. What an amazing crop of leaders. Excited to advance the scaling of our @newamerica.org-NSF Accelerator for Community Colleges in the Innovation Economy as a fellow! www.rockefellerfoundation.org/fellowships-...

Join @newamerica.org and @workshift.bsky.social this Thursday for the launch of our Future of Work Reporting Fellowship! Applications open through July. Please share with #journalists/freelancers/writers/storytellers you know. www.newamerica.org/events/a-new...

🆕 @newamerica.org & Work Shift are launching a #paid Future of Work Reporting #Fellowship! Aimed at mid-career #journalists/#storytellers at the intersection of education, workforce, industrial policy, emerging tech, labor, etc. Press release, launch webinar, and app details below! Please share!

Trump admin announces "first set" of appointees to the PCAST Marc Andreessen Sergey Brin Safra Catz Michael Dell Jacob DeWitte Fred Ehrsam Larry Ellison David Friedberg Jensen Huang John Martinis Bob Mumgaard Lisa Su Mark Zuckerberg www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Great turnout for our #student spotlight session at AAAS #ERN last week. Ty French @sunybroome.bsky.social, Michael Nelson Alamance CC, and Mehdiye Muhammedi CC Denver shared their experiences in emerging tech programs as part of @newamerica.org & NSF's Accelerator for CCs in the Innovation Economy

Distribution of Federal Science and Engineering Support to Higher Education Institutions Across States via NSF

Today, New America relaunches our brand and website, strengthening how we advance independent research and bold solutions for a new America. 📍 newamerica.org

Pleased to be supporting Sens. Warner and Rounds' Economy of the Future Commission Act, which was dropped today. #Bipartisan legislation to develop solutions that help American workers adapt to the rapid #economic and workforce changes driven by #AI. www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...

It was an honor to testify before the House Approps House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies this week. Thank you to Chair Aderholt and Ranking Member @delauro.house.gov for the opportunity. My testimony: www.newamerica.org/center-educa... @newamerica.org

Next week I testify before the House Appropriations LHHS Subcommittee, overseeing ED & DOL, on "Preparing for the Future: America’s #CommunityColleges." Thanks to Chairman Aderholt, Ranking Member, @delauro.house.gov and the Committee for the opportunity. appropriations.house.gov/schedule/hea...

My latest for @forbes.com covers how OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Intel are partnering with National Science Foundation-funded National Applied AI Consortium - a free network for #communitycolleges to improve the quality and scale of #AIeducation. Check it out: www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

The 6-3 ruling is a major blow to the president's signature economic policy. n.pr/3OtEZ2E

✨ How will #AI shape our work, relationships, and lives across adulthood? This time TOMORROW, join our #FutureOfWork Director @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social for a deep conversation about #GenAI and other emerging #tech with the world’s first chief AI ethics officer, Kay Firth-Butterfield.

Pleasure to join @standupforscience.bsky.social and #sciencepolicy leaders focused on reimagining federal R&D enterprise for a better 21st century future I shared our ideas to maximize federal investments in regional innovation ecosystems, including through #communitycollege and #labor partnerships

Popping in to share some news! Excited to continue advancing our work with the #communitycollege sector and #NSF to strengthen the link between R&D-based economic development and education and training #pathways to the future of work and the #AmericanDream. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Breaking: Trump's higher-ed compact is open to all, I confirmed for @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... “We welcome any institution that wants to adopt these principles to sign the compact,” a source told me.

Wow. China now installs more industrial robots each year than the rest of the world combined. Robot density (robots per 10,000 workers) leapfrogged Germany, the US, and Japan. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Shutdown-related reduction in force / federal layoffs by agency H/T @washingtonpost.com Other federal agencies are considering RIFs for possible execution in the next few weeks

If you haven't already, you'll want to watch this @brookings.edu recording ft @chrismurphyct.bsky.social "Beyond productivity: The pursuit of purpose in the age of AI" Kudos to @mollykinder.bsky.social and our Brookings colleagues for organizing this discussion. www.brookings.edu/events/beyon...

I'm hiring at @newamerica.org! Are you a savvy project manager or technical assistance pro? Want to help build the capacity of #communitycolleges to deliver #workforce strategies for #emergingtech sectors? Join us! Priority deadline: Oct 17 newamerica.applytojob.com/apply/Icvr6G...

Harris-voting states were hit hardest by Department of Energy award cancellations, but not every blue-state project was cut. Politics might play a role.

How many Einsteins have we "lost?" 🧠 Here, our policy experts @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social and @lisaguernsey.bsky.social detail how steep cuts to #STEM funding and canceled research grants have jeopardized opportunities for young and underrepresented scientists—and how we can re-engage them.

🆕Ellen Hause of the American Association of #CommunityColleges (AACC) and I are out with a profile on Dr. Celeste Carter, who recently joined @newamerica.org as a #FutureofWork & Innovation Economy initiative fellow and led NSF's ATE program for 16 years #scipol www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Young scientists are speaking up. They talked with us about what the future looks like right now for scientific discovery. They described the pull to go to Europe instead, where countries are investing and recruiting our best scientific minds. Congress must reverse this trend and invest in STEM Ed.

📢 Conference announcement! Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation. If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.

💡 Meet our new #FutureOfWork fellows! Over the next year, these experts will help us advance scholarship and technical assistance related to science, #workforce, and industrial policy. Welcome, all!

POLITICO Playbook shout out here - www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Excited to welcome our 2025 cohort of @newamerica.org Future of Work & Innovation Economy initiative fellows! Thanks to @politico.com for covering the news. Welcome Francie Genz, Phil Singerman, Celeste Carter, @adamfagan.bsky.social, and @techiewonk.bsky.social! www.newamerica.org/education-po...

I’ll be speaking tomorrow (9/23) at 9am EST at the DC campus of Arizona State U on a project by @rti.bsky.social to calculate the long-term impacts of technologies invented at NIH labs. See cspo.org/event/ntfa09... Register to attend in-person or online. #techtransfer #sciencepolicy

@lisaguernsey.bsky.social and I are out with a new article for @newamerica.org capturing #student voices that have been caught in funding cuts and grant cancellations over what we refer to as a "summer of despair for #STEMeducation" Please read it and share! www.newamerica.org/education-po...

How Indirect-Cost Reform Will Affect University-Industry R&D Partnerships Join @newamerica.org along with former NSF Director France Cordova, former White House OSTP Director Kelvin Droegemier, UIDP CEO Anthony Boccunfuso, and Microsoft's Elizabeth Bruce. Moderated by @politico.com's Erin Schumaker

Pleased to share that Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) will be joining Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) in speaking at this event. Register below!

Join us on Sept 15 for a webinar w/ the U.S. National Science Foundation on NSF Regional Innovation #Engines, a new model of place-based S&T investments promoting industrial strategy Feat @brookings.edu @slaughteram.bsky.social @repbillfoster.bsky.social & others www.newamerica.org/center-educa...

Thanks to Research!America intern Scott Brown for this nice profile of some of our work analyzing NSF's #workforce evolution in recent years www.researchamerica.org/blog/nsf-and...

Commerce Secretary Lutnick pulls $7.4B CHIPS funding from the independent Natcast back into NIST. What will that funding be allocated to? Not the soveriegn wealth fund according to Lutnik. Could reallocate to synergistic investments in other agencies? www.manufacturingdive.com/news/commerc...

After more than 50 years of rapid growth, the nation’s immigrant population is now in decline reflected in a new @pewresearch.org analysis as of June 2025 www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...