Employment
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Fed’s Occupational Mobility Explorer enhances opportunities for job seekers and workforce development professionals
The Federal Reserve’s Occupational Mobility Explorer illustrates how a skills-based approach to hiring can benefit workers, workforce development professionals, employers, and human resources professionals.
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State Data on Lower-Income Workers and Exposure to AI
Use our interactive tool to explore data for each state on workers who are relatively more likely to be affected by AI.
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The Quarterly Catch-up, Q1 2026
Check out the latest community development-related research, analyses, and articles from all 12 Federal Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors. This post captures content published between January 1 and March 31, 2026, on topics affecting communities.
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LMI Data Books
The LMI Data Books are an assembly of data points with a focus on low- and moderate-income populations and communities. These tools are intended to aid community development organizations with their program planning and grant applications and provide a better understanding of the populations they serve. The data books are broken out into segments: demographics,…
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Why don’t more out-of-work people receive unemployment insurance?
Unemployment insurance can help people transition in their careers and quickly re-enter the workforce. Yet many people who lose their jobs don’t receive this benefit. Recent Federal Reserve research sheds light on the barriers limiting UI access and recipiency.
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[Watch] How Fed Data Tools Can Inform Economic Mobility
Federal Reserve staff, along with panelists from organizations that leverage data resources to serve their communities, discuss skills-based hiring, navigating benefits cliffs, and fostering partnerships with employers. Watch or listen on demand.
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Small business strategies for supporting employee child care needs
Small businesses employ nearly half of private-sector workers but often have limited resources to offer benefits like child care. This article examines the prevalence of employer-supported child care and the practical strategies small businesses employ to support working parents.
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Industry, workforce, and education advance together to strengthen West Texas’s manufacturing sector
The Big Country Manufacturing Alliance (BCMA) aligns cross-sector efforts to strengthen the manufacturing industry in West Central Texas.
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The Quarterly Catch-up, Q4 2025
Check out the latest community development-related research, analyses, and articles from all 12 Federal Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors. This post captures content published between October 1 and December 31, 2025, on topics affecting communities.
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Native Economic Trends
Native Economic Trends brings together decades of data to visualize socioeconomic change over time—for individual Native places and for Indian Country as a whole. Drawing from publicly available data, this interactive tool enables users to explore patterns in population, infrastructure, and economic measures for Native geographies and communities.