JOBS THAT WORK is about how we do everything better.

Jobs are vital to American life. How you end up in a good one is impacted by everything around you.

Where you grew up. Who your parents are. What experiences touched your life.

How we build the ways Americans get to work, then, should always have everything in mind.

It often doesn’t.

Through analysis, research, and original reporting, JOBS THAT WORK is a newsletter about making American jobs policy more accessible and workforce development better built for humans.

JOBS THAT WORK publishes at least twice a week.

Tuesdays break down the big topics in American workforce policy, with transparent and frank discussions about the process of policymaking and an eye toward real solutions.
These posts are free for everyone.

Thursdays are about THE MONEY, providing an insider’s guide to what’s happening with the resources getting workers into jobs that employers need filled.
Most of these posts are for paid-subscribers only.

When something big happens in between, paid readers will get special editions with exclusive analysis and insights.

Who writes this?

Nick Beadle is one of America’s leading thinkers and innovators in workforce development and the public policy that informs it. He spent more than 11 years at the U.S. Department of Labor, where as an attorney and workforce chief of staff, he built a first-of-its-kind program using workforce resources to attack the opioid crisis and strategies for getting more workers to good jobs through government programs.

Since leaving DOL and starting JOBS THAT WORK, his insights have shown up in reports by NPR, Bloomberg, and Washington Monthly.