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- Title: Better Skills for Better Jobs: A Competitive Grants Program Could Enable the States to Implement Evidence - Based Training Programs That Would Prepare Workers for Well - Paid, Highly Productive Jobs (Worker TRAINING)
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 360 KB
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In 2008 and 2009, the U.S. economy shed more than 8 million jobs; since 2009, the economy has created only about 2 million. Most economists expect the labor market to continue to recover slowly from the Great Recession over the next several years. But the quantity of jobs is not the only concern. The nation also needs to focus on creating more high-quality jobs and providing workers with the skills necessary to perform those jobs. Too many U.S. workers lack the education necessary to thrive in a modern economy and the specific skills required to compete for high-paying jobs. In today's more competitive product and labor markets, employers will create such jobs only if the productivity of their workers can potentially match their higher levels of compensation. Doubtful about the productive potential of their workers, employers often choose to compete based only on low costs rather than on better worker performance.