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NashvilleLefty

(811 posts)
14. You're forgetting something,
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 03:56 PM
Sep 2012

a lot of employers are looking for workers with specific job skills, yet they have stopped offering training in those skills themselves.

The unemployment rate among college grads is somewhere around 5% Cary Sep 2012 #1
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What we need is to get ourselves out of this liquidity trap Cary Sep 2012 #11
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I hear you but I don't think protectionism is as good as it sounds Cary Sep 2012 #16
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Inevitable. Cary Sep 2012 #20
Excellent analysis Freddie Sep 2012 #2
The Employment-Population Ratio is another measure of economic recovery. It was 63.7 (unadj) or jody Sep 2012 #3
Usually if there are unfilled jobs that don't require specific experience or education Nikia Sep 2012 #5
O is a big factor, especially since so many new jobs are McJobs. Employers assume gkhouston Sep 2012 #7
This doesn't help: Republicans Have Blocked The American Jobs Act For One Year SunsetDreams Sep 2012 #6
The problem of unemployment can't be fixed until the sea-change KG Sep 2012 #8
If fixed costs do not prohibit, production seeks lower labor cost whether textile jobs to overseas jody Sep 2012 #9
+1 moondust Sep 2012 #10
The unemployment problem is much simpler than that, MadHound Sep 2012 #12
You're forgetting something, NashvilleLefty Sep 2012 #14
"stopped offering training"! Then why is govt wasting billions training the work force for specific jody Sep 2012 #15
Maybe the government is doing that because many companies won't do it themselves jp11 Sep 2012 #17
I'd disagree that the real job market is even this simple to look at jp11 Sep 2012 #19
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