>Tell me something. How much less than you are spending now could your family live on? I'm talking just the basics. Food, shelter, simple clothing, medical attention only for serious matters, etc. <
Not much less. I live on ramen noodles and tunafish sandwiches. My clothes are all several years old. I do without dental. My prescriptions are what I can get free from my doctor as samples. The house is paid for. I owe $3200 on a car & have no other debts. This is not high living.
>Jobs are leaving because there is economic advantage to moving them. When that advantage disappears then the jobs will stop moving. <
It's nowhere near that simple. People are not little plastic parts, instantly interchangeable no matter where they are used if the molds are the same. If you do not have the kind of educational system in place to produce highly skilled workers, if you do not have industries in place to hire those workers and further hone those skills, the talent pool won't be there.
If you could hire a chemical engineer for $5k a year, would you do it if the only computer experience he had was with punch card mainframes and he never held a calculator in his life? He wouldn't be much of a bargain; you'd spend years bringing the guy up to speed no matter how intelligent, dedicated, and flexible he was-or how cheaply he would work.
If you could hire a chemical engineer for $5k a year, would you do it if the only computer experience he had was with punch card mainframes and he never held a calculator in his life? He wouldn't be much of a bargain; you'd spend years bringing the guy up to speed no matter how intelligent, dedicated, and flexible he was-or how cheaply he would work.
Many state governments have programs for displaced workers that will fund retraining, including multiple year degree programs. There is free internet access at most libraries. There are excellent free tutorials available. I taught myself Python and Java that way. Many journals have issues older than two years available free. It all depends on how badly the person wants to succeed.