Resources for the show:
1) The recent hearing from the  US House of Representatives’ Education/Workforce Committee:
https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4130212) Senate HELP’s 2025 (?) pdf on labor reform:
https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/labor_reform_legislation_summarypdf.pdf

3) Congress’s ideas for labor reform:
https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/news-insights/senate-republicans-unveil-ambitious-labor-reform-package.html

4) The Social Security Administration’s moves to increase the age of retirement and all that it entails:
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/changes-coming-to-social-security-in-2026

5) From the Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve, this 2024 information about ‘lifelong workers’:
https://www.atlantafed.org/cweo/workforce-currents/2024/08/06/reconceptualilzing-workers-as-lifelong-learners

6) Compare and contrast with the WEF’s report:
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/05/workers-multiple-careers-jobs-skills/

7) A well adjusted worker is ideal:
https://news.worldcc.com/news-from-worldcc/lifelong-learning-to-boost-your-career-well-being-and-creativity

8) “Lifelong learning” is the catchphrase used in education to create a ‘lifelong worker’ (not a new topic for us to cover, by a long stretch!):
https://www.earlall.eu/how-is-lifelong-learning-linked-with-the-sustainable-development-goals/
see: https://www.commoncorediva.com/?s=lifelong+

9) Current Congressional bills for retirement, retirement funding (and control of):
HR 2988 (Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act)
HR 1013 & S 424 (Retirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act)
HR 2148 (Veteran Caregivers Reeducation. Reemployment and Retirement Act)
S 26 (not yet named by will impact retirement at a local level
HR 2793 & S 2810 (Retirement Freedom Act)
HR 2544 & S 1222 (Financial Freedom Act)
Several bills from the US Senate’s HELP committee members that center on labor reform:
S 3117 (RESULTS Act), S 3115 (NLRB Stability Act); S 3116 (Fairness in Filing Act); S 3114 (Union Members Right to Know Act); S 3124 (Protection on the Picket Line Act); and S 3128 (Worker Privacy Act)

10) From the BPC (Bipartisan Policy Center), their focus on America’s workforce:

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/policy-area/human-capital/commission-on-the-american-workforce/
AND
Why the BPC is doing what it’s doing:
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/commission-on-the-american-workforce-guiding-principles/

11) BPC’s recent webinars on workforce alignment for all of society:
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/americas-workforce-solutions-beyond-the-gridlock/
AND the upcoming March 2026 day long event for a national workforce strategy:
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/event/americas-workforce-blueprint-national-talent-strategy/
(I’ve registered to be a fly on the wall, you can join me, too)

12: My 2019 article (archived) that detailed to lifelong learn/earning model perfected by Marc Tucker and brought back to America:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2019/04/29/a-monumental-crush/
(especially this image)