Ep. 8: Working on a Bigger Picture
This season of Tight Knit has covered a lot of ground seeking to understand the landscape of workforce development in Southeast Michigan and Western New York. In our final episode, Tight Knit host Sha...
15 Aug 20231h 2min
Ep. 7: The Bus Stops Here: Employers Try Solving Turnover
A missed phone bill, a late bus, or even a not-quite-completed degree can derail employment for many. Meanwhile, employers suffer the cost of poor retention and few promotions within their entry-level...
3 Aug 202330min
Ep. 6: Who Are You Willing to Hire?
If businesses want to find enough workers, they’ll need to change their hiring practices, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. We look at programs that provide job opportunities for...
20 Juli 202324min
Ep. 5: An Electric Future for Gen Z
From solar cells and batteries to electric vehicles, the future is electric. Getting there takes a coordinated effort among nonprofits, schools and colleges, businesses and governments. We talk to sev...
13 Juli 202338min
Ep. 4: Jump Starting Careers in Construction and Beyond
Take a deeper look at how workforce development programs, government, and businesses cooperate to keep workers and build economic opportunity. This episode also explores financial risks of these chang...
27 Juni 202335min
Ep. 3: Manufacturing in a New Era
At Buffalo’s Northland Workforce Training Center on Buffalo’s Eastside, men and women are finding new careers in advanced manufacturing. The center’s programs help to fill a skilled trades workforce g...
15 Juni 202329min
Ep. 2: Get Your Education!
This week we look at how public education helps the workforce, and we talk to one teenager who loves shop class at Detroit’s Randolph Career and Technical Center, and to Don Hutchison who had a bumpy ...
6 Juni 202332min
Ep. 1: The Workforce Pipeline
Learn more about the Tight Knit series from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation at tightknit.org.Tight Knit is hosted by Shannon Cason. Our supervising producer and editor is Sea Stachura and our execu...
25 Maj 202328min
