Word: retrained
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...biggest problem is the vicious circle. We have a population without skills. While we retrain, we must import skills from the advanced countries. For that you need dollars. But to have dollars you have to produce exports. To produce exports you need people with skills...
Anyone who has hired new employees or tried to retrain veteran ones is painfully aware of the problem. As much as a quarter of the American labor force -- anywhere from 20 million to 27 million adults -- lacks the basic reading, writing and math skills necessary to perform in today's increasingly complex job market. One out of every 4 teenagers drops out of high school, and of those who graduate, 1 out of every 4 has the equivalent of an eighth-grade education. How will they write, or even read, complicated production memos for robotized assembly lines? How will they...
Other student groups applied more diversetechniques. Using its annual "awareness days" as aspringboard, GLSA organized efforts to counterwhat members described as pervasive homophobia oncampus. In addition to distributing informationand pins, GLSA submitted a 13-point proposal tothe College, along with results from a campus-widesurvey, asking it to retrain tutors and advisorson handling issues of sexual orientation. As withmany other challenges, the College responded bycreating another discussion committee, includingGLSA leaders, faculty and administrators...
Some of the elements of the Administration package have been known for weeks. One is a $1 billion federal fund to retrain up to 900,000 U.S. workers in a bid to enhance U.S. competitiveness, a favorite Washington buzz word. Another is a doubling of the National Science Foundation's budget over the next five years, to $3.2 billion, to help buttress U.S. research and development. The Administration also wants to strengthen existing laws designed to keep foreign manufacturers from dumping goods in the U.S. at prices that are less than the cost of production. Among other things, the White...
...safeguard the center? M.I.T.'s Thurow believes the Government should take a stronger hand in helping industries improve the country's global competitiveness and halt the outflow of well-paying jobs. The Brookings Institution's Lawrence disagrees, recommending instead that the Government should make more of an effort to retrain and relocate workers whose skills have become unwanted...