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What we don't have is a slew of ingenious solutions for what happens when a new generation enters a workforce where disruptions will only gather pace.
Gen X and the baby boomers, whether they left school early as most did, or went to university as a few did, entered a workforce that, with a few temporary exceptions, had an unemployment rate above 6.5% and was sometimes as high as 10%.
We've entered a workforce that needs to, and wants to, move around.
We have entered a workforce where deep skills are the currency, not just experience.
BEST awards aim to supply academic biomedical training programs with the resources needed to help their graduate students and postdocs enter a workforce outside of academia but still in research-related positions.
And Xers endured lots of destruction: the first generation to graduate college with huge credit card and loan debt; who entered a workforce with meager, declining entry-level wages; who, when the tech bubble burst in 2000, had the highest percentage of assets invested in the stock market; who will spend an increasing amount of paychecks on Social Security and Medicare for boomers.
Law schools, in particular, are facing a crisis -- most students must now borrow six-figure's worth of debt to enter a workforce that has been described as "bi-modal".
And the fact that you are the first generation in many to enter a workforce and economy that is not handing you success on a silver platter gives you the motivation not just to survive, but to excel.
The key initiative will require "unemployment recipients who fail basic job skills testing to enter a workforce training program to learn those basic skills in order to continue receiving benefits".
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