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Job skills gap widens at high cost to U.S. economy

FOCUS: Job skills gap widens at high cost to U.S. economy

Four years after the Great Recession, jobs remain scarce and unemployment painfully high. Yet good jobs that do exist can go unfilled for lack of qualified workers, employers say. The best jobs – jobs that pay well with benefits – are in health…

By Tim Landis

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Many thanks to
Ed Morrison Purdue Center for Regional Development: Economic Policy Advisor: Developing network-based strategy models for sharing this. He also writes:

"Here’s a good article on the challenges of bridging the skills gap.

A recent OECD report put these challenges in a global context. In the first assessment of adult skill levels across developed countries, the the OECD pointed to the importance of addressing this challenge." Learn more here: http://bit.ly/19Ed97V

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