Posted on 04/16/2014 1:21:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
(CNN) – Hoping to help close the gap between workers' skills and the needs of businesses, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will announce he's putting hundreds of millions toward job training programs that produce highly skilled workers.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will head to a community college in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to make the announcement.
The funding will come in two parts: $500 million toward a new job training competition that pairs community colleges with businesses, and $100 million for new apprenticeship programs to train workers.
The White House says the new initiatives are meant to combat a long-standing problem facing the American job market: how to fill job vacancies requiring skills few Americans have.
High-growth sectors like information technology, high-tech services, healthcare and advanced manufacturing all require workers with specific sets of training. Many in those fields say they can't find enough American workers with the required skills, forcing them to find workers overseas.
The President first announced during this year's State of the Union address that he wanted Biden to lead an administration-wide task force to examine how Americans can better train for jobs. Since then the vice president has met with CEOs and business executives and visited job training centers in New York and New Hampshire...
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Why? Obama and Biden need to look within. Governnment, specifically, big spending, big taxing, big borrowing, big controlling Marxist/fascist anti-free enterprise, anti-liberty BIG government is the problem!!
An actual job is much better than “job training” for imaginary jobs.
Will any reporter wake from his narcolepsy and ask why such remedial training is necessary given the trillions spent on so-called education?
Again?
HA...they don’t want to HELP anyone. The ONLY ones they want to help are themselves....to OUR tax money to fund boondoggles for the corporatists, bureaucrats and educrats.
Question: How hard is it to "care" and be "compassionate" with someone else's money that you basically stole?
The best job training starts with a job.
Don’t we already have 30-40 tax-sucking, pointless, ineffectual job programs already? The only people these stupid programs create jobs for are the dull-normal administrators who push pencils around in these government offices. Enough!
Sounds like more green house gas. How about bringing home the exported jobs that they already know how to do?
MADE IN USA is what is needed. But candidates are listening to Wall St not Main St.
Maybe we should start asking them what they always ask, “How are you going to pay for it?”
IT is high growth?
All those jobs were outsourced back in 2001
I love it when people who have never worked in the private sector, tell us what the private sector needs.
Trainer: Repeat after me: Would you like fries with that?...............
Jeez, more boondoggle education spending that will promptly be wasted in pilot programs that result in zero jobs except for cronies, consultants, grant writers and administrative assistants at the community colleges.
I don’t care HOW much they spend on their job training, I don’t think either one of them is capable of learning a useful trade.
this will ensure some dumbass college teacher will get to teach the yutes about things he has never done, has no idea how to do it, nor any background remotely connected to it...yep, that’ll work....
So laughable.
Like they were the first to think of job training? What happened to K-12 and college?
What happened to the probably hundreds of job training programs by federal, state and local entities.
The military is a great job training program.
Like we need something else?
Go back to you equality scare mongering. Plus do something about foreign policy. The rest of the world thinks we are impotent.
Where is the money coming from ... what part of the “budget”? We know where it’s going .... “training programs” run by the likes of Acorn, etc.
reparations...
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