Trump's National Council for the American Worker Results in Pledges from Major Companies

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump's National Council for the American Worker Results in Pledges from Major Companies
Townhall, Jul 20, 2018, Courtney O'Brien

Lost in all the Russia news this week was President Trump's latest workforce initiative. On Thursday, he signed an executive order establishing the National Council for the American Worker.  The White House detailed the council's key goals.

•Develop a national campaign to raise awareness of workforce issues, such as the urgency of the skills crisis and the importance of STEM education;

•Create a plan for recognizing companies that demonstrate excellence in workplace education, training, retraining policies, and workforce investment;

•Help expand the number of apprenticeships and encourage increased investment in training and re-training American workers;

•Recommend a specific course of action for increasing transparency related to education and job-training programs, and propose ways to increase available job data; and

•Consider and implement the recommendations of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board (Board), as appropriate

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The initiative will focus on skills training and education. They'll be reaching into high schools to train students for the workforce, while mid-to-late career workers will be trained in new skills.

Several major companies have already indicated they're ready to sign the pledge, Ivanka noted. Wal-Mart, agreed to 1 million enhanced career opportunities. Fed Ex agreed to 500,000. Apple said they wanted to honor the pledge, as did Boeing and Oracle.


More:  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/07/20/ivanka-promotes-jobs-initiative-n2502135

[endicom]

This looks most promising to me:

•Help expand the number of apprenticeships and encourage increased investment in training and re-training American workers;


The rest I expect to be of limited or no benefit. But I'll be happy to be wrong.

[jmyrlefuller]

Develop a national campaign to raise awareness of workforce issues, such as the urgency of the skills crisis and the importance of STEM education;

If they knew anything, they'd know that the STEM fields have ridiculously high underemployment/misemployment rates, because the education in one STEM field is rarely transferrable to another for the purpose of careers. That is the real skills crisis: employers want specific demands of prospective employees that very few can meet.

Engineering is the only STEM field that has any sort of shortage.