Word: semerad
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...states to come up with specific proposals and compete for the available money. The guidelines emphasize training and re- employment as opposed to income support. "We want people to get back to work, not make it more comfortable to be out of work," says Assistant Labor Secretary Roger Semerad. "Everything in the future is going to be much more technologically oriented, and a much higher level of literacy is going to be required." The proposal applies not just to workers made jobless by foreign competition but to everyone stricken by long-term change...
...program would not address one problem: new jobs that open up are often far away from where old jobs disappeared. "That is just a fact of life, and I'm not sure that the Government should necessarily have a solution," says Semerad. Nevertheless, the proposal will probably be politically attractive. "It is historic in that the Federal Government assumes the responsibility for dealing with these major problems of fundamental adjustment," says Pat Choate, author of The High-Flex Society. "We have over 2 million people a year who lose their jobs." He views the $1 billion, which could serve...
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