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Raymond Barbosa

Senior Research Analyst

phone 617.728.4446

Raymond Barbosa works as a senior research analyst for JFF's body of work dedicated to increasing opportunities for low-income, low-skilled adults to obtain the education and skills necessary to attain productive jobs and career. His work primarily revolves around data analysis and aggregation, as well as supporting development of JFF’s data systems. This includes analysis of labor market information, data validation, and testing and development of JFF’s data systems.

Before joining JFF, Raymond worked as a contractor at the Energy Information Administration (EIA). At the EIA, he collected and validated tanker, barge, and pipeline survey data for the EIA’s weekly and monthly reports. Prior to the EIA, he also previously worked as a data analyst at Miriam’s Kitchen, a nonprofit working to end homelessness in Washington, DC.

Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in religious studies from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

This report is a national landscape analysis of secondary-level, skilled trades education. We analyzed data from 37 states to understand what trades education programs are offered, who participates in them, and what outcomes students experience. We also reviewed promising practices and challenges to the field and made recommendations to stakeholders in education, workforce, and industry for improving access to quality trades programs.

A framework of occupations and career paths created or transformed by extended reality and immersive learning.

Insights into the business case for skills-based hiring, what this approach looks like applied to training for XR jobs, and action recommendations for education and workforce leaders.

Incremental learning pathways will benefit both workers and employers as the growth of the XR market creates new categories of jobs and generates demand for new skills.

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The stakes are high for programs and policies that transform our nation’s systems of working and learning. You need to ask the right questions, collect the right data, and conduct the right analyses to know what works and how to improve.  

JFF’s Research & Analytics Unit combines deep field knowledge with rigorous and systematic inquiry to create strong evidence that can be put into action.