“I’d have a shovel in the hands of the long-term unemployed from 8am to noon, and from 1pm to 5pm I’d have them studying algebra, physics, and geometry.”
How’s that going to work when the majority of these long term unemployed have not even mastered the basics of Fractions?
that isn’t 100% true. Plenty of highly educated people are finding themselves unemployed or underemployed. This is about competition amongst a growing pool of job seekers in a climate of decreasing employment opportunities.