Posted in economy, media, tagged academic costs, advice, agency, ailing economy, American, Americans, analysis, Ann Pace, aspiring, back to school, Belle Wheelan, campuses, career, career change, cashier, cashiers, child, college, commission, competitiveness, continuing education, cost of going to school, create jobs, credential, critical, curriculum, Curt Eysink, customer service agents, degree, diminish, director, editorial, education, educational loans, electrician, employ, employment insecurity, engineering, failing, fields, fluke, forecasts, foreign, foreigners, Forgotten MiddleSkill Jobs, future, genius to succeed, globalization, governor, grad students, grades, Great Recession, growth projections, growth sector, H-1B, H1B, hands-on, higher education system, hire, home health aids, hope for, income, industry, inshore, insource, internationalize, invest, IQ, Jan Moller, Jindal, Joe the Plumber, labor, labor department, lobby attendants, loss, Louisiana, Louisiana Workforce Commission, low wage, machinist, math, mechanic, middle class, middle skill jobs, national outlook, New York Times, nobel winners, not enough, occupation, offshore, options, outsource, outweigh benefits, panacea, Ph.D, plumber, politically correct, prospects, public, reality check, reforming, report, representatives, requiring, right decision, rude awakening, schools, science, secretary, security, seeing red, seekers, service, service sector, should I return to school, silver lining, skilled, skilled labor, Skills2Compete, skillset, social contract, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, stability, standard of living, states, statistics, STEM, student lending, student loan bubble, students, study, survey, Susan Hockfield, technical, technology, the bell curve, ticket-takers, Tom Friedman, too few, too many, too many four year graduates, trade, trends, truth about, U.S., undercut, unemployable, unemployed, United States, university, unpopular view, untouchables, visas, vocational, wages, where are the jobs, workers, workforce, Workforce Alliance, worthwhile on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Curt Eysink is an unpopular man.
Less than three months after assuming his post as executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, he told a panel charged with overhauling the state’s higher education system: “We’re producing a workforce that we cannot employ in Louisiana.”
The apparent problem? Too many four-year college grads and not enough low-skill and vocational trade workers. …
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Amazon recalls illicit digital e-books, and with them our notion that we can ever really own anything “digital”. This and other dangerous realities of the e-universe.
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What this worldwide recession proves: Globalism is a fatally flawed model in the present economic and ecologic sense. Protectionism may not be the answer, but nor is leaving one’s country ripe for manipulation at the hands of commodities and foreign currency traders, resource shortages and above all too-close-to-the-bone ideas about corporate “efficiency” that make transcontinental supply chains so perilously thin and easy to disrupt. Why we need a cell-based economy. Stat.
