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Invest in closing the skill gap to ensure all workers have access to education and training…without leaving behind those individuals who can benefit the most from skills training.
Add 5 million community college graduates by 2020.
Most occupations that pay a family-sustaining wage will be filled by workers with postsecondary education or training beyond high school. Yet half of the American workforce has not had any postsecondary education or training. Among these workers, the goal of a marketable credential is furthest out of reach for the 25 million who did not even finish high school.
Science and technology are creating innovation-enabled 21st century job opportunities for working Americans in
frontline jobs such as biomedical and energy efficiency technicians, social media communications assistants, new materials production workers and advanced manufacturing factory floor laborers.
Since 1991, we have fallen from third to sixth place among developed countries for percent of our population with an associate’s degree or above.
For the United States to retake the global lead for the proportion of its adults with a postsecondary credential it will need to enroll, at a minimum, 10 million individuals who would be considered working learners.
Without the enhanced skills of these individuals,
the United States will lack the productivity boost to move us through economic recovery to growth.
Increase Pell grants Increase all types of skills training Increase integration of ABE and Workforce education & training Community College Innovation Centers – alternate educational
pathways for working learners Eliminate sequence of service to help working learners move
directly into training Change WIA performance measures to add postsecondary
education attainment Shift training dollars to basic skill development (ARRA) Revise ITAs to tighten the connection between ABE, occupation
skills training and credit bearing course work Improve training link to portable postsecondary credential Improve linkages to community colleges for worker learner
postsecondary credentials Align Title I and Title II performance measures