Workforce Solutions Capital Area has partnered with the city and Travis County, as well as Austin Transit Partnership and Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to form a leadership group focused on linking local residents to jobs from the many transportation and infrastructure projects taking place in the coming years. With Project Connect, light rail, the Interstate 35 reconstruction and the expansion of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on tap, the group’s goals include studying future skills needs for those projects, finding ways to scale workforce training programs, identifying obstacles for job seekers and creating a plan for building the workforce to fit infrastructure needs. The consulting firm CivicSol is currently working on a 20-year forecast and study of the mobility workforce to assess worker availability, job training capacity, academic readiness of job seekers and more.
Chad Swiatecki is a 20-year journalist who relocated to Austin from his home state of Michigan in 2008. He most enjoys covering the intersection of arts, business and local/state politics. He has written... More by Chad Swiatecki