Thursday, November 7, 2013

Change the Conversation: Education and the Skills Gap


Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe: “A trillion dollars in student loan debt right now.  A trillion dollars.  We are lending money that we don’t have to kids that will never be able to pay it back to educate them for jobs that no longer exist.”

We don’t have a lack of jobs available in this country.  We have a workforce that lacks the technical skills it needs to fill the millions of vacant jobs that are currently being offered.

Read more from Rowe here: http://profoundlydisconnected.com/cnn-viewer-has-questions/

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