Trump’s Workforce Initiative to Provide Skills Training for 12 Million Americans

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Trump’s Workforce Initiative to Provide Skills Training for 12 Million Americans
Epoch Times, Jul 26, 2019, Emel Akan

WASHINGTON—More than 300 companies and organizations said they would support the White House’s workforce initiative, committing to train over 12 million Americans to help them gain new job skills over the next five years.

Company executives and workers on July 25 joined the president at the White House to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the “Pledge to America’s Workers,” an initiative to address the workforce skills shortage problem in the country.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in July last year to kick-start a national strategy to train and re-skill the U.S. workforce.

“The president’s call to action for the pledge has become a full-blown national movement,” Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser, said during the event. She and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross are spearheading the workforce development initiative.

Over the past year, more than 300 companies and organizations—large and small—have signed the pledge to train, and “today, we celebrate reaching 12 million pledged commitments,” she said.

Historic labor-market tightness, combined with years of underinvestment in technical jobs training, has made it very difficult for businesses to fill job openings. As of the end of May, there were 7.3 million unfilled jobs while the unemployment rate stands at 3.7 percent, near the lowest level in 50 years.

Businesses are now competing to attract workers and drawing more people off the sidelines into the workforce.


More:  https://www.theepochtimes.com/trumps-workforce-initiative-to-provide-skills-training-for-12-million-americans_3017355.html

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Trump’s Workforce Initiative to Provide Skills Training for 12 Million Americans
Epoch Times, Jul 26, 2019, Emel Akan

WASHINGTON—More than 300 companies and organizations said they would support the White House’s workforce initiative, committing to train over 12 million Americans to help them gain new job skills over the next five years.

Company executives and workers on July 25 joined the president at the White House to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the “Pledge to America’s Workers,” an initiative to address the workforce skills shortage problem in the country.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in July last year to kick-start a national strategy to train and re-skill the U.S. workforce.

“The president’s call to action for the pledge has become a full-blown national movement,” Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser, said during the event. She and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross are spearheading the workforce development initiative.

Over the past year, more than 300 companies and organizations—large and small—have signed the pledge to train, and “today, we celebrate reaching 12 million pledged commitments,” she said.

Historic labor-market tightness, combined with years of underinvestment in technical jobs training, has made it very difficult for businesses to fill job openings. As of the end of May, there were 7.3 million unfilled jobs while the unemployment rate stands at 3.7 percent, near the lowest level in 50 years.

Businesses are now competing to attract workers and drawing more people off the sidelines into the workforce.


More:  https://www.theepochtimes.com/trumps-workforce-initiative-to-provide-skills-training-for-12-million-americans_3017355.html

 

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Paging Mike Rowe....

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A whole lot more valuable than subsidizing colleges and degree plans that are essentially worthless and generate dead-end jobs. E.G. - any liberal arts degree