Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World
Job training may not have been as successful as possible...but that's on individual motivations, the implementation, and not the concept. And the dole is an important positive, but it just puts a few more dollars in the pockets of those left behind...not help them move forward.
No. It is a classic example of something that sounds lovely and has exactly zero actual value in the real world.
So what do you do instead if it doesn't work?
Just to be clear, the concept of job training does work.
Like most aspects of government, its being cut and therefore doesn't get the resources to address individual motivations and be executed properly. I actually saw the article Atlantic's mislabeled 'The False Promises of Worker Retraining' prior to my post. That article does not claim that jobs training can't work...but rather is not designed properly. Here are all the premises it advances:
'Workers who have been laid off through corporate downsizing or because their jobs were shipped to a foreign country don’t want to dedicate the time and effort needed to go through retraining without the pledge of a sure-fire job with the same or a better paycheck.' - Sounds like an individuals decision or motivation issue
'Federal retraining programs remain rooted in the industrial era in which they were created.' - Sounds like an execution issue
'For many dislocated workers it’s often easier to collect unemployment or other cash benefits that come along with training and then either remain jobless or patch together work that doesn’t require learning a new skill or acquiring a college degree.' - An individual motivation issue
'Employers don’t want to expand or relocate without the availability of an already-skilled workforce' - learn computer programming. Done. Oh, you don't want to do that?
'Dollars delivered to the states through the federal government’s primary workforce-retraining program have been slashed by 22 percent since 2009, and in his first budget earlier this year, President Trump proposed further cuts.' - Sounds like execution
“Higher education is usually seen as being inflexible to the needs of students.” - Execution
https://www.theatlantic.com/educati...e-false-promises-of-worker-retraining/549398/
...and what do we say about the US failure on guns? Look at other countries. Why don't we do that on jobs retraining? The following is an article that shows how others in the world have figured this out, but the US hasn't in large part to diversity and large part to govt. cuts:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-co...n-can-teach-the-world-about-worker-retraining
Indeed, while Sweden's federal unemployment agency also runs retraining and counseling schemes, the industry-union councils do a better job of tracking which jobs and skills are most in demand, and they can adapt more quickly to market changes, Melin says. One council, TRR Trygghetsradet, had a success rate of 90 percent last year, and 34 percent of those re-employed workers found jobs that paid the same or more than their former ones.
Other countries show how the concept of jobs training can work with the right programs...
