Economic Summit 2025

Description

Plan on attending the Seventh Annual Economic Summit!

Paul Fain is a journalist focused on connections between education and work. He writes The Job, a newsletter that explores those issues, and helps edit a related weekly publication, Work Shift, which he co-founded. Fain also hosts The Cusp, a podcast on AI?s impacts on jobs and education. From 2011 to 2020, Fain was a reporter and editor at Inside Higher Ed. He oversaw the news outlet?s coverage of low-income students, college completion, community colleges, and federal policy. Prior to IHE, Fain was a senior reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he covered money and management.
Some of what will be discussed by Paul Fain include:
* AI and jobs: The latest on the tech's development and what experts predict about its impact on jobs.
* How the fast-moving technological revolution of AI is affecting students and recent graduates.
* What we don't know about AI and the labor market.
* Update on the federal policy landscape, focusing on industrial policy and workforce development.
 * Shifts in post-secondary education -- the end of 'college for all' and the rise of short-term credentials.
* Economic mobility and workforce models to watch at the state and regional levels, particularly education and training paths for non-degree workers.
* Apprenticeship -- can it make a real difference in this country?