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Skills for America's Future
Program Summary

Skills for America's Future is a national initiative that promotes partnerships between community colleges and businesses.

President Obama visits Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia to announce new commitments by the private sector, community colleges and the National Association of Manufacturers to give 500,000 community college students industry-accepted credentials. June 8, 2011.

About Us

In an increasingly competitive global economy, America’s economic strength depends on the education and skills of its workers. Every worker, especially in this economy, deserves a chance to retrain and build new skills and seek the next opportunity.

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Our Work

Putting resources into the training and development of workers is one of the very best investments we can make. Skills for America's Future brings together government, the private sector, community colleges, and labor to make that happen.

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Building on the success and example of the Change the Equation coalition to improve science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, Skills for America's Future will be structured as a broad umbrella under which corporations, labor unions, community colleges and others can connect, identify opportunities for leveraging and scaling effective models, and working together, have a substantially greater impact than the training efforts of individual firms or community colleges.