Skills Gap
This report is especially enlightening because it shows how the skills gap emerging in America is taking shape. Baby Boomers and others across the nation are retiring and/or leaving their jobs, and employers (particularly in the skilled trades) are having more trouble than ever finding qualified replacements. Career and technical education will be critical to the solutions to these emerging gaps, and businesses, education and government all must work together to truly effect the change the economy needs.
The newly formed Industry Workforce Needs Council is one example of a group of businesspeople committed to effecting change in this space. For more information on their efforts, visit www.iwnc.org.
Jason Sprenger, for the IWNC
