Stuart Andreason
Assistant Vice President and Director of the Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunitystuart.andreason@atl.frb.org
Areas of Expertise: Workforce development and community development finance
Recent Work: Investing in America's Workforce, funding/financing workforce development, student/institutional finance, opportunity occupations, workforce and skill policy, and benefits cliffs
Biography
Stuart Andreason is an assistant vice president and the director of the Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In his role he conducts research and works across the country to support Federal Reserve and partner organization efforts in workforce development, the labor market, and economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income workers.
Andreason has been at the Federal Reserve since 2014 and previously served as a senior adviser on human capital and workforce development. In that role he has published articles on workforce development practice and policy and labor market trends, including deep analysis of opportunity occupations, or middle-skill jobs that pay high wages. He is the editor of Developing Career-Based Training and Models for Labor Market Intermediaries.
Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, Andreason was a research associate at the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn IUR). There, he helped develop a set of indicators of livable and sustainable communities for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funded by the Ford Foundation. He was a fellow of the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences at Penn and a Lincoln Institute of Land Policy C. Lowell Harriss fellow. Previously, he led two nonprofit organizations focused on economic revitalization in central Virginia and worked for the Pew Partnership for Civic Change.
He is a reviewer for several academic and practice-based journals and publications. Andreason teaches economic development analysis at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in urban and environmental planning from the University of Virginia and a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.
Publications
Atlanta Fed Community and Economic Development Discussion Papers
Financing Workforce Development in a Devolutionary Era
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2016-2
April 2016
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Leading, Lagging, and Left Behind: Identifying Metropolitan Leaders and Labor Market Outcomes
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2015-4
October 2015
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Fragmentation in Workforce Development and Efforts to Coordinate Regional Workforce Development Systems
Stuart Andreason and Ann Carpenter
2015-2
April 2015
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Atlanta Fed Working Papers
2015-4
Will Talent Attraction and Retention Improve Metropolitan Labor Markets?
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April 2015
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Articles
Pearse Haley and Stuart Andreason. "Utilizing Opportunity Occupations Data for Recovery." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (December 2020).
Stuart Andreason and Katherine Townsend. "Who Has COVID-19 Impacted and What’s Been Done to Help?" Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (December 2020).
Stuart Andreason, Sarah Miller, and Katherine Townsend. "Talent Finance: Exploring the Future of Workforce Partnerships." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (September 2020).
Stuart Andreason and Sarah Miller. "Rework America Alliance: Helping Workers Move into Good Jobs." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (August 2020).
Stuart Andreason, Pearse Haley, Sarah Miller, and Mels de Zeeuw. "The Digital Divide and the Pandemic: Working from Home and Broadband and Internet Access." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (June 2020).
Stuart Andreason. "Introducing the Unemployment Claims Monitor." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (May 2020).
Stuart Andreason. "Reemploying the Unemployed." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (April 2020).
Stuart Andreason. "COVID-19, Workers, and Policy." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (March 2020).
Stuart Andreason. "Automation and the Future of Work." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (March 2019).
Stuart Andreason. "Policies to Close the Southern Skills Gap." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (July 2018).
Stuart Andreason. "Creating Opportunities for Young Workers." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (March 2018).
Stuart Andreason. "Director's Welcome." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Workforce Currents (October 2017).
Stuart Andreason. "View from the Field: Does Community and Economic Development Face Technical or Process Challenges?." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Partners Update (July/August 2015).
Stuart Andreason and Mindy Kao. "Future Fortunes: Are City-Suburban Educational Attainment Trends in the Southeast United States Unique?." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Partners Update (May/June 2015).
Stuart Andreason and Mindy Kao. "Future Fortunes: Trends in Educational Attainment in U.S. Legacy Regions," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Partners Update (March/April 2015).
Stuart Andreason and Mindy Kao. "Future Fortunes: Trends in Educational Attainment in the Most Populous Metros," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Partners Update (March/April 2015).
Stuart Andreason and Mindy Kao. "Future Fortunes: Trends in Educational Attainment in Atlanta and Its Suburbs," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Partners Update (January/February 2015).
Stuart Andreason. "The Soft Skills Gap," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Partners Update (January/February 2015).
Stuart Andreason. "Understanding the New Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Partners Update (November/December 2014).
Stuart Andreason. "Promoting Educational Attainment at the Local Level," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Partners Update (July/August 2014).
Special Publications
Stuart Andreason, Todd Greene, Heath Prince, and Carl E. Van Horn, editors. Investing in America’s Workforce: Improving Outcomes for Workers and Employers. Kalamazoo: MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (November 2018).
Stuart Andreason, Ashley Bozarth, Brooke DeRenzis, Melissa Johnson, Rachel Hirsch, and Andrew Pack. "Building a Skilled Workforce for a Stronger Southern Economy." Atlanta Fed’s Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity, St. Louis Fed, and National Skills Coalition (June 2018).
Developing Career-Based Training, ed. Stuart Andreason. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2017).
Keith Wardrip, Stuart Andreason, and Mels de Zeeuw. "Uneven Opportunity: Exploring Employers' Educational Preferences for Middle-Skills Jobs." Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, January 2017. (Summary article)
Models for Labor Market Intermediaries, ed. Stuart Andreason. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2016).
Keith Waldrip, Kyle Fee, Lisa Nelson, and Stuart Andreason. Identifying Opportunity Occupations in the Nation's Largest Metropolitan Economies. Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Atlanta (2015). Full report
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Podcast Episodes
Stuart Andreason and Mels de Zeeuw. "'It's Going to Be Interesting to Watch': A Conversation about Unemployment Claims Data." Economy Matters podcast. July 15, 2020.
Stuart Andreason. "Understanding the Atlanta Fed's Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity." Economy Matters podcast. February 1, 2018.
Stuart Andreason and Mels de Zeeuw. "Where Will Opportunity Knock? A Discussion of Opportunity Occupations." Economy Matters podcast. April 13, 2017.
Stuart Andreason. "The Developing State of Workforce Development." Economy Matters podcast. May 12, 2016.
Stuart Andreason and Dee Baird with Chris Shannon. "Strength in Numbers: Regional Workforce Collaboration." Economic Development podcast. January 11, 2016.
Other Publications
Stuart Andreason and Laura Wolf-Powers. "Aligning Secondary and Post-Secondary Credentialization with Economic Development Strategy, or If Low Educational Attainment = Poor Metropolitan Competitiveness, What Can Be Done About It?" in Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America, ed. Laura W. Perna. University of Pennsylvania Press (2012).
Stuart Andreason, Eugenie L. Birch, Amy Lynch, Theodore Eisenman, John Robinson, and Kenneth Steif. "Measuring U.S. Sustainable Urban Development," Penn Institute for Urban Research (September 2011).
Stuart Andreason, Amy J. Lynch, Theodore Eisenman, John Robinson, Kenneth Steif, and Eugenie L. Birch. "Sustainable Urban Development Indicators for the United States," Penn Institute for Urban Research (2011).
Stuart Andreason. "Can Regional Approaches to Economic Development Work in Virginia Main Street Communities?," University of Virginia (2010).
Stuart Andreason, Suzanne Morse, Tom Cross, and Joanne Tu. "Southern Virginia: Building Competitive Advantage," Civic Change Incorporated (2010).