Content tagged with “Workforce”

Policy Priorities for Manufacturing: Summary Findings of 2012 Aspen Seminar

Tags: Manufacturing, Policy, Exports, Taxation, Job Training, Workforce, Skills Training

Lessons for the United States from the German Model of Training Skilled Workers

Updated with a clip from the last panel: The Importance of Workforce Training for Advanced Economies.At a recent Aspen Institute Manufacturing & Society event on the German Model of manufacturing...
Tags: Workforce, Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century

Using Partnerships to Tackle the IT Skills Gap

A recent report from CompTIA, a leading trade association of the information technology (IT) industry, underscores the glaring problem of the "skills gap." A staggering 80 percent of IT employers...
Tags: Skills for America's Future, Workforce

Start Talking Skills, Not Just Jobs

Note: This blog originally appeared in the Huffington Post on 9/07/11. Its authors are Karen Elzey, director of Skills for America's Future, and Maureen Conway, director of the Workforce...
Tags: Jobs, economy, Skills for America's Future, Karen Elzey, Workforce Strategies Initiative, Maureen Conway, Workforce