I didn’t read the full article yet but this sounds like what I’ve been saying, people need to get creative about new or different ways to do things than before to get the young and the older unemployed back to work.
I know a lot of people who have gone through college and now have jobs they do not like, that do not pay well, and which are dead ends.
Our culture says “Go to college or else be a loser.”
We need to convince people that many other career paths are perfectly respectable. Making apprenticeships socially acceptable would be a wonderful thing. A lot of people would be happier, and human labor would be expended in more useful directions than mere paper-shuffling in a cubicle.
The southern states have been using community colleges
BMW built a plant and told the state what they needed
The state used the community college to train the workers the state and BMW could not find in the general population of the area
Both new high school graduates, and long-term unemployed workers (whether from the manufacturing sector or not) will need new skill training to enter the 2017 manufacturing workforce.
And the US private sector and technological universities will need to develop new advanced manufacturing technologies. Manufacturing is not what it was in the 1960s or 1970s.
The return of jobs (and corporate cash) to the US from overseas, plus this additional training and research and development, will be a shot in the arm to the US economy and to the American workforce. If we can pull it off, it will dwarf the achievements of the Reagan era.
It will also show up the Dims, the clintonites, and the GOPe for the scurvy rats they are, and they will have a difficult time getting elected for decades to come!!!!
There are young people that don’t know how to tie a shoe, you better believe that we are going to need Apprenticeship Programs.
We have to bring back the exception to the Fed Min Wage and for States to get Education funding, they have to do the same.
Apprenticeship should be only slightly better than an unpaid internship, you are learning valuable skills and getting paid.