Posted on 03/06/2020 6:52:18 PM PST by Hojczyk
Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes in USA Today that amid the positive economic indicators in the country, about 6.4 million jobs are open nationwide. In order to fill these jobs, high schools and colleges need to prioritize skills-based education and training:
Millions of available jobs are in middle-class professions that pay roughly $50,000 a year or more, according to Labor Department estimates. These include 600,000 construction and manufacturing jobs, whose median annual full-time pay is $47,000 and $49,000, as well as over a million health care and social assistance positions, whose median annual pay is $45,000.
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Policymakers can win this battle by prioritizing skills-based education and protecting entry-level jobs. High schools and universities are not adequately training the workforce to the level the economy demands. According to a 2011 analysis of Collegiate Learning Assessment data, nearly half of university students show little to no improvements in critical thinking, complex reasoning or writing after two years.
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Educators and policymakers should prioritize skills-based training programs that provide certifications and diplomas over degrees. Many of the country’s available good jobs don’t require a four-year education. But they usually require post-secondary training such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning; service tech; plumbing or design certification.
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I worked construction in Denver ...2000....and the Dumb Mexicans
we’re getting there kids in the apprentice programs for electricans,plumbers,hvac..elevator workers...the whites were sending there kids of to college where most flunked out after a couple of years...
The Mexican workers at the time were mostly laborers,cement finishers the really hard work...
Apprentices worked 40 hrs a week and did schooling nights and some weekends...
This is one reason we need school choice. I don’t even think it is necessary for a kid to attend 1 school - they could attend 2 or 3 different schools on a staggered schedule that would allow them to explore their strengths and weaknesses. Allow kids who excel in certain fields to go to a school that will let them run. Allow kids who need help in certain fields to attend extra classes to catch up. And kids who want to learn construction, auto repair, you name it. The market will provide it if there is demand.
And while I generally think there should be no income taxes on wages, I’m think perhaps we should put a big fat tax on large employers that use H1B visa employees; or who outsource overseas jobs that could be easily done inside the USA. Say, 100% tax on the salaries paid to H1B visa employees. So yeah, if you really need someone with critical expertise you can do it; but you don’t have an economic incentive to fire an American supporting a family and a mortgage just because 2 Bangladeshi citizens are happy to share a small apartment and work for half the pay.
Answer: Stop colleges from cranking out grads with worthless degrees.
China, India, Taiwan, South Korea know how to educate their young.
Why does the USA continue to flood the world with Psy and Art History majors?
The fee that the employer pays to sponsor a single visa could be set to something like 25K and the money paid distributed to a fund to be used for regional tech prep high schools in the U.S.
It was a crime getting rid of vo-tech schools.
“Everybody can borrow money and go to college!!” Yes, but should they?
A lot of these majors, including things like Anthropology and Paleontology, are nice to have, but there are no job opportunities outside the university itself. Instead of getting rid of them outright, I would move them to the community colleges, where they would be a lot less expensive.
That’s just dandy, but businesses seem to want only somewhat younger workers with a few years of experience so they can get maximum experience at the lowest pay. Now, it’s fine to want that, but there aren’t that many of them and they are already employed. Employers need to be willing to train people, and they aren’t.
No room left for US citizens.
Every county should have a good vo-tech school. Kids that are not college material should be guided to the vo-tech school rather than either flunking out of college or borrowing big bucks to get a no-payback degree.
This is also the key to bringing the rest of the world up to our level and reducing illegal immigration - teach them to weld and build and fix and maintain then let them stay home and thrive.
In addition to vocational and technical programs schools need to bring back classes like general or consumer math and business English. Home Ec (for both males and females); likewise shop classes. It wouldn’t hurt for college-bound students to take those classes as well.
Life skills, basically.
They also need to get rid of the current trend of screening resumes with a bot looking for key words, and replace it with someone that can extrapolate experience that would apply to the position by reading between the lines. A bit of training to cross the skills over would get them an employee and if they are giving the person a chance, a loyal one at that.
The main thing is to 1) replace our rotted and intentionally ineffective educational system with straightforward teaching particularly in the early grades, and 2) tighten up the low end of our labor market by kicking out the illegals.
Then suddenly employers will look to training their own employees as needed, as well as making their jobs and workplaces more appealing to workers. They will start investing capital in jobs that they long just hired illegals for and in turn the market will naturally pay those workers better wages too.
Sure, there will be disruption as we adjust, but the country will be far the better for it.
Who is this guy? He sounds like some nut. Teach a kid a trade and his income will increase? That flies in the face of everything our betters have been telling us for 40 years. Vocational training isn’t better than a degree in transgender bi-sexual ethnic underwater basket weaving no matter what Alfredo says. And why is he named after pasta sauce anyway? Do I really need the /s?
Amen to that.
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