Americans should continue training people for good jobs to help people achieve the skills they need to compete in this economy. The biggest concern is about the nation lessening its commitment to job training in the middle of a recession. Urban League is one of the last free service providers whose mission is to serve people. They serve many people who are not prepared for college. They need a GED, they want an occupational skill, and they want something less than college to get in the workforce. I believe that job training is a worthy public investment. It is more productive than continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to invest in training people here for the jobs for tomorrow.
We have to embrace on one level globalization, that we are in a global economy and there’s nothing we can do that is going to stop the globalization of the economy. I do think that there is a growing awareness that we have allowed a lot of good paying jobs to migrate abroad. Those manufacturing and productive capacities that have migrated abroad would not survive without American consumer. We have to learn about the power with our dollar and our power in how we spend and whom we spend money with. I truly believe that we need awareness about how we spend our dollars in ways that are going to multiply for the American economy.
Summer jobs program is an excellent idea we’ve been literally pounding our fists on the table for the last two years saying we’ve got to put young people to work. It’s going to help the economy but also it’s a vote of confidence at a time when demoralization and disenchantment and alienation are on the rise. So I think that it’s a good plan.
Though the plight of our unemployed is truly dire, it is essential that we overhaul our existing web of overlapping and inefficient job training undertakings before we initiate yet another questionable program. At the best, our country’s job training programs appear wasteful and extremely questionable value. At the worst, they provide cover for the failings of our public schools. Though Republicans and Democrats are at loggerheads over whether to spend less or spend more, surely we can agree on the need to spend smarter. Job training would be an excellent place to start.
In this blog that one of my colleagues writes regarding more job training makes quite a bit of sense to me. Being that we are in recession times, many individuals are finding that perhaps going back to school maybe the best thing to do in order to survive in this competitive economy, but after taking one good look at tuition amounts it’s hard to justify it. The Urban League Network is national and helps diverse professional s simulate today’s jobseekers. I agree that getting the ball rolling on summer job programs and training the adolescence will help get things started and help the economy in the long run.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that the government should spend a bit more money on programs such as the Urban League that provides such resources that makes searching a lot faster and painless. This organization provides a website with job listings, job alerts, career and professional tips. A lot of times being such a internet driven world, it can place a barrier and be overwhelming to some folks to search the internet for things such as jobs.
Ultimately this department needs a bit more TLC from the government, and there is no better time than the present.