If it is votes, there is no valid reason to have those policies. There are very few counties in the country that have exactly the skilled labor they need. The reason stunting the growth of higher education makes sense with Republicans is it serves as a dog whistle for their voters.
This is really bad news. I know for a fact The Cameron School of Business on the UNCW campus turns out excellent prospects for employees in the finances industry. I know young women (I am sure their aspirations include someday to replace Chairwoman Yellen.) that currently work with Wall Street firms and have been there since their graduation with a one year paid internship. That is great news, isn't it? They are not burdened with loans they can't pay.
Just as a note: One of the young ladies had lost her mother to breast cancer going into her final year in UNDERGRADUATE work. She was supported by the fact her mother wanted her to graduate and find a good way of making a living. She came through for Mom. These students are great people. They need to have the chance to learn. This generation has been hurt by so many years of Republican dogma changing good policy into junk.
But, the Republican governance of NC is diminishing funding for education across the board including universities. It is the private schools and universities they favor. They favor these schools for political reasons, including cronyism. It has nothing to do with improving education. These educational programs in private schools or charter schools don't have a great record to date and they've been in existence since "W." Currently in NC school teachers are conducting their classes without books, supplies (unless students bring their own) and teaching assistants in classrooms where they have proven to be needed.
The country is in trouble and the next two years will bring about more trouble considering the US House and Senate have Republican majorities.
What occurs anymore with voters that vote according to dog whistles, is that they demand the work be done they voted for. All those extreme agendas such as personhood and defunding public education become priorities to re-election. With majorities in the US House and Senate, the country is going to have a lot of problems by 2016 if their legislation actually makes it into law. It is going to be a very long and ruthless two years the way I see it.
Republicans talk a good story, but, they lie like rugs.
November 20, 2014
Fewer than 1 in 3 states (click here) – California among them – has a strong enough supply of skilled workers to match intense demand for their services, according to a new report about the growing skills gap....
This is really bad news. I know for a fact The Cameron School of Business on the UNCW campus turns out excellent prospects for employees in the finances industry. I know young women (I am sure their aspirations include someday to replace Chairwoman Yellen.) that currently work with Wall Street firms and have been there since their graduation with a one year paid internship. That is great news, isn't it? They are not burdened with loans they can't pay.
Just as a note: One of the young ladies had lost her mother to breast cancer going into her final year in UNDERGRADUATE work. She was supported by the fact her mother wanted her to graduate and find a good way of making a living. She came through for Mom. These students are great people. They need to have the chance to learn. This generation has been hurt by so many years of Republican dogma changing good policy into junk.
But, the Republican governance of NC is diminishing funding for education across the board including universities. It is the private schools and universities they favor. They favor these schools for political reasons, including cronyism. It has nothing to do with improving education. These educational programs in private schools or charter schools don't have a great record to date and they've been in existence since "W." Currently in NC school teachers are conducting their classes without books, supplies (unless students bring their own) and teaching assistants in classrooms where they have proven to be needed.
The country is in trouble and the next two years will bring about more trouble considering the US House and Senate have Republican majorities.
What occurs anymore with voters that vote according to dog whistles, is that they demand the work be done they voted for. All those extreme agendas such as personhood and defunding public education become priorities to re-election. With majorities in the US House and Senate, the country is going to have a lot of problems by 2016 if their legislation actually makes it into law. It is going to be a very long and ruthless two years the way I see it.
Republicans talk a good story, but, they lie like rugs.
November 20, 2014
Fewer than 1 in 3 states (click here) – California among them – has a strong enough supply of skilled workers to match intense demand for their services, according to a new report about the growing skills gap....
...Between 2006 and 2012, some areas have made great strides – specifically Alabama and Washington, D.C., in the supply of skilled workers and Alaska and Montana in the demand for such employees.
But OECD researchers said many barriers remain to encouraging businesses and workers to seek higher skills and connecting them when they do.
Even in California, the skills gap is threatening economic growth. More than half of companies surveyed by the Society for Human Resource Management said they have struggled to recruit candidates for open positions, particularly for higher-wage jobs....
