Tuesday, March 3, 2009

जोब्स फॉर the future

If unemployment is partly due to the fact that people aren't trained for the job market, meaning most people need more training rather than there just aren't enough jobs, then why don't we make sure everyone gets post-secondary training? Everyone gets to go to college. Then we don't have a bunch of unskilled, unemployed blue collar workers who can't handle a manufacturing slowdown. It seems like there are still plenty of jobs out there, if only our country cared enough to prepare people for them. The state and federal labor analysts have a pretty good idea what's going on with the economy, where workers are needed and what training they need.
Let the market take care of itself like it always has? Look, people don't know what jobs they need unless someone who knows can tell them. We have fully public education through high school which may not be preparing people for work, so why not have fully public education beyond that which guides people into career paths which are appropriate to them and the economy? Smart? Yes. Socialist? So what.

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