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September 21, 2020 - News

To solve America’s unemployment crisis, we need to follow a plan from the Great Depression

There is a massive misalignment between workers and living-wage jobs with career trajectories. This is the real employment crisis – one we need to solve.

September 2, 2020 - News

Jobs of the future: 10 fastest-growing occupations expected to be in health care, tech

Michael Rosenbaum, former White House economist and CEO of Arena, a software company that helps employers recruit and retain workers, echoed the bureau’s predictions. There is not just the obvious “demographic bludge” with baby boomers, Rosenbaum said, but Americans are “also living longer and…

August 25, 2020 - News

Storytelling about Arena with Mike Rosenbaum

During this episode, Mike and I talk about how practitioners make the business case or the use case for purchasing Arena. Mike is easy to talk with and his passion for all things big data and data analytics comes through during the podcast.…

Storytelling about Arena with Mike Rosenbaum

August 23, 2020 - News

Former White House economist and founder of Arena Michael Rosenbaum talks unemployment during the pandemic

The unemployment in Chicago is 19%. As some of the additional supports have subsided, things have gotten worse, but at the same time, areas like health care are hiring aggressively. Arena is deployed in 90 healthcare facilities in the Chicago area, and those facilities have hired…

Former White House economist and founder of Arena Michael Rosenbaum talks unemployment during the pandemic

August 7, 2020 - News

Arena’s CEO, a former White House Economist, discusses the July jobs report

July job numbers just out, 1.76M jobs added. “There’s no question that these numbers are a little better than we were hoping, but they are still devastating.”

Arena’s CEO, a former White House Economist, discusses the July jobs report

August 4, 2020 - News

Brian Sommer’s July Briefing

Technology Services Analyst, Brian Sommer, states: Arena’s differentiation revolves around the removal of bias in recruiting and in facilitating more employee career mobility. Arena can predict employee retention as well as alternate roles for the employee, engagement and time/attendance behavior.

August 3, 2020 - News

Displaced Workers and Providers Have a Chance to Meet Their Match

As senior living providers needed workers because of COVID-19 – and as workers across the country lost jobs under the suffering economy – a collaboration of Argentum, ASHA, and ARENA provided a way to help both groups: Senior Living FastMatch.

Displaced Workers and Providers Have a Chance to Meet Their Match

July 26, 2020 - News

Coronavirus has shown us that we need a WPA 2.0. Here’s how to make it work: Tech CEO, Michael Rosenbaum

America needs a comprehensive national strategy to reverse the steep, fall-off-the-cliff dive the economy took during the forced national shutdown from the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 23, 2020 - News

COVID-19 Employment Study: American Job Losses and Recovery by State

Arena CEO Rosenbaum shares Expert Insights on COVID-19 Employment Shifts in MoneyGeek panel interview. Question 1: What role has the fiscal stimulus had on job loss and recovery?Rosenbaum: One of the primary effects of the fiscal stimulus has been to protect…

July 6, 2020 - News

‘By increasing diversity we can transform our economy’ Arena CEO Mike Rosenbaum explains

Arena CEO Michal Rosenbaum joins the On the Move panel to discuss what his company is doing to reduce biases in the labor market. He also explains his WPA 2.0 plan to transform the economy through apprenticeships for 20M unemployed…

‘By increasing diversity we can transform our economy’ Arena CEO Mike Rosenbaum explains