“Not Just Kid Stuff Anymore: The Economic Imperative for More Adults to Complete College” by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems revealed that the number of high school graduates in Massachusetts will decline by nearly 10 percent between now and 2020. We are one of [...]
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Two recent editorials, one in the Boston Globe and one in the Boston Business Journal, highlighted ideas for making workforce training more effective and accessible. In “The Drill with Workforce Training” (January 28, Boston Business Journal), Joseph Giglio of Northeastern University makes the case for vocational training (in particular, our voc-tech high school system) and [...]
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In their recent Commonwealth Magazine piece, Jerry Rubin and John Schneider take us briefly back to December 2000, when MassINC released its “New Skills for a New Economy” report that revealed one in three workers in Massachusetts did not have the skills needed to thrive in our “new economy.” A decade later, in January 2011, [...]
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Last week, the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston released a report that examined labor supply and demand in New England. “Mismatch in the Labor Market: Measuring the Supply of and Demand for Skilled Labor in New England,” which examined population trends as well as educational, economic and workforce [...]
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“Employers have millions of jobs they are trying to fill. But in some cases, they are having trouble.” So begins a new series on NPR about the labor-skills mismatch that we currently have in the United States, even during this recession. While this first segment focuses on higher skilled jobs like architects, engineers, and software [...]
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