Greg and Lindsay discuss how manufacturing has evolved, why young people need greater exposure to technical and hands-on careers, and how employers and workforce organizations can work together to build training around the jobs that are actually emerging. They also explore why workforce organizations should specialize and partner rather than trying to serve every part of a worker’s journey on their own.
At the center of the conversation is a broader question about job quality. Lindsay makes the case that New York must not only create new industries and middle-class jobs, but raise wages, benefits, and dignity across the service economy while using innovation to solve problems that workers and communities face every day.