Posts Tagged 'education'

Made in America Panel Suggests that the Plight of Women in the Workforce is Being Ignored

Made in America Panel Suggests that the Plight of Women in the Workforce is Being Ignored

Host Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 69 stations) by noting that the jobless rates coming out of the White House are pure fiction.  Despite reports that jobs are being created, these reports don’t take into account that each month, the employment numbers are falling behind the 60,000-70,000 jobs that must be created to keep pace with new workers entering the jobs market; and ignore the number of workers ...

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Made in America Panel Awaits Potential Supreme Court Ruling on Obamacare

Made in America Panel Awaits Potential Supreme Court Ruling on Obamacare

Host Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 48 stations) with more troubling news about Obamacare; particularly new revelations from the GAO advises that the Obama administration is illegally giving insurance exchanges subsidies (without Congressional approval) as an incentive to participate in the program.

Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly returned to Made in America to continue to express his anger that Obama consistently wages war on coal, which meets 40 percent of ...

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College Degree No Longer the Solution to Good Jobs

College Degree No Longer the Solution to Good Jobs

More than 40 percent of recent U.S. college graduates are unemployed, underemployed or need more training to get on a career track, according to a poll released last year by global management consulting firm Accenture.

The online survey of 1,050 workers who finished school in the previous two years and 1,010 who received their degree in 2013 also found that many graduates, some heavily in debt because of the cost of their education, say they are in jobs that do not ...

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The Rebirth of Vocational Schools

The Rebirth of Vocational Schools

It took a moribund economy and unemployment combined with underemployment exceeding 25 percent for the United States to wake up to the realities of vocational schools. Apprenticeships and on-the-job training can be traced back to our nation’s founding. But as America prospered throughout the 20th century, workers turned their backs on manufacturing jobs, which they perceived as dirty and unglamorous.

Today, the most glamorous goal for the 20 million unemployed and underemployed Americans is to have a job. Therefore, vocational schools ...

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Rescuing the Lost Generation

Rescuing the Lost Generation

With 25 million unemployed or underemployed Americans, there’s a segment of the population that is generally being ignored: today’s youth.

The unemployment rate in April of this year for 20- to 24-year-olds is 13.2 percent. According to a Pew Research Center study completed in December of 2011, the share of young adults aged 18 to 24 currently employed of 54 percent is the lowest since the government began collecting data in 1948.

And the gap in employment between the young and all ...

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