As Atul Gawande writes, the seventy per cent of Americans who lack a college degree have been forsaken.* That's because we've created a college-for-all culture, where alternatives to "professional" work are not respected or encouraged, instead of supporting programs that would give high schoolers vocational paths strategically aligned with both evolving and steady workforce needs.
Having a steady, reliable and competitive workforce is one of the biggest challenges facing the industry.
Prioritizing education and rehabilitation over prisons in state budgets could both save money and supply a steady and well-trained workforce for a green economy.
While the number of women in the American workforce makes a steady, upward progression, the gender pay gap is in a holding pattern.
Fact: Since the end of the Korean War, there has been a steady decline in the federal civilian workforce as a share of the U.S. population.
Several laws of the period display a particular concern in limiting the right of peasants to evade corvées by paying their equivalent in currency, thus granting the boyars a workforce to match a steady growth in grain demands on foreign markets.
Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 18.6% of the GDP in 2005, employed 60% of the total workforce and despite a steady decline of its share in the GDP, is still the largest economic sector and plays a significant role in the overall socio-economic development of India.
Moreover, as the urban workforce grows in size, a steady flow of new arrivals from the villages makes a smaller proportionate impact.
Once converted into a skilled workforce, there will continue to be a steady supply of talented employees for the outsourcing sector.
While companies large and small continue to shrink their workforces, the federal government remains on a steady hiring course across the country.
The trend will continue, at a steady clip, into 2017 as the benefits of an agile workforce manifest themselves in a fiercely competitive global economy.
