President Carter’s domestic policy advisor, Stuart Eizenstat, and Robert Lerman, an Urban Institute Fellow, claim there is a skills gap in manufacturing that threatens America’s manufacturing comeback (“Bring back the apprentice”, Washington Post, May 5, 2013). Readers are asked to accept a citation from an unnamed survey that claims 600,000 jobs go unfilled because the […]
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics published its January report showing a seasonally adjusted December increase of 155,000 jobs. The increase for the 12 months ending December 2012 is 1.836 million jobs, a respectable – but hardly spectacular – increase for the year. The job totals for 2012 will be subject to review and possible revision […]
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