Expand Work Shift's Coverage

We need your support to expand Work Shift’s coverage.

We created Work Shift because we thought a different kind of publication—one focused on issues rather than an industry—was needed to keep up with the rapid pace of change in workforce education.

Work Shift remains the only news site to focus solely on the supply and demand sides of the education-to-work pipeline—tracking how community colleges, corporate training, apprenticeships, and alternative credentials are faring amid middle-class anxiety, federal funding uncertainty, and a labor market in flux. In recent months, we broke news on the federal government’s mixed signals on apprenticeship and reported on how individual learners are footing the bill for short-term credentials, before other outlets paid attention.

Each week our reporting reaches thousands of influential pros, including policymakers, researchers, corporate leaders, journalists, and people who work across the education sector. But we could be doing much more. 

We’ve been able to keep Work Shift free and independent thanks to support from a handful of foundations and individual readers. As interest in our core issues intensifies, we need your support to provide more ambitious coverage in 2026.

A $350 contribution keeps workshift.org online with our news platform for a week, freeing up resources for reporters. A $5K donation covers the costs to produce a newsletter issue. A recurring gift of $20 a month or any amount helps sustain our coverage year-round.

Work Shift provides agenda-free, sophisticated reporting on how millions of Americans navigate education and career opportunities. Help us grow that coverage.

If you have questions about supporting our work, or ideas to expand funding for our reporting, please email Elyse at [email protected].

Thank you,

Elyse Ashburn and Paul Fain, Work Shift’s editors