Monday, December 19, 2011
Tweet[IWS] Brookings: WHAT IS HAPPENING TO AMERICA’S LESS-SKILLED WORKERS? THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN TODAY’S ECONOMY [2 December 2011]
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Brookings
The Hamilton Project
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO AMERICA'S LESS-SKILLED WORKERS? THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN TODAY'S ECONOMY [2 December 2011]
by Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney
http://www.hamiltonproject.org/files/downloads_and_links/Dec_2011_JobBlog_FINAL.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In this month's analysis, The Hamilton Project explores the employment and earnings trends
facing America's less-educated workers over the last few decades, and highlights training and
workforce development opportunities that could be part of the policy solution. We also continue
to explore the "jobs gap," or the number of jobs that the U.S. economy needs to create in order to
return to pre-recession employment levels while also absorbing the 125,000 people who enter the
labor force each month.
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