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July 26, 2010

Training Crucial to Labor Market

Hilda Solis, Politico


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This recession has caused a generational restructuring of America’s labor market.

Many job skills in high demand 20 years ago just aren’t today, and some of the fastest-growing careers now weren’t even conceivable then. That’s why this administration is refocusing job-training efforts to give workers the skills they’ll need to compete successfully in a 21st century labor market.

Recently, there has been a lot of attention on workers who lost jobs through no fault of their own in this recession. Of these “dislocated workers” who have completed Labor Department job-training programs, 85 percent have found jobs.

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