The unemployment rate is 3.9 percent. Businesses are desperate for workers. Yet at the same time, a large group of people can’t find a job.
The skills people have often don’t match the skills employers need. One solution is training them for a specific field: a short, intensive course that prepares students for skilled work in construction, auto mechanics or hospital patient care. In New Jersey at the moment, these jobs can pay $19 or $20 an hour to start.
These programs can be very successful at getting students into high-paying jobs — especially when they work directly with employers to design the training, and employers agree to hire graduates. They aren’t always helpful, though, to those who need them most: people who are chronically unemployed or underemployed, working in low-wage, dead-end jobs — sometimes two or three at the same time — like cleaning offices, cooking hamburgers or selling clothes.
[For more on this story by Tina Rosenberg, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...he-job-training.html]
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