She added, "We are investing in our customer base and future work force".
State policy makers know that investments in their future work force can pay off, yielding higher state income (and tax revenues) in the future.
Which would be fine, as I said, if his state wasn't in charge of preparing a large chunk of the nation's future work force.
In that study, Professor Weiner sought to estimate the impact of the then-impending Clinton health reform on the country's future work force situation.
It decided that Reston offered the best combination of access, quality of life and proximity to its present and future work force.
Samantha Katsounas Austin, Tex., Feb. 28, 2011 To the Editor: Paul Krugman asks how Texas "can prosper in the long run with a future work force blighted by childhood poverty, poor health and lack of education"?
It's not a pretty picture; compassion aside, you have to wonder — and many business people in Texas do — how the state can prosper in the long run with a future work force blighted by childhood poverty, poor health and lack of education.
So while he proposes universal preschool to benefit the future work force and new training programs delivered through community colleges for existing workers, Mr. Obama seeks to foster a stronger economy here and now, to drive higher earnings for people at all income levels rather than just those at the top.
Texas' problems are of interest to us all because Texas is producing a huge chunk of the nation's future work force with a system that goes like this: Terrible sex education programs and a lack of access to contraceptives leads to a huge number of births to poor women.
The success of America's future work force depends on the ability of higher education institutions to adapt to and educate our rapidly growing population of nontraditional students: those who are low-income, first-generation, part time, commuting, ethnically diverse and older.
