Workforce Training- Solving the Skills Shortage Problem

The Commonwealth Corporation, with 42 staff members, seems to value administration more than renewing workforce skills.

I won't even hazard a guess as to what the collective salary of these people is.

$41,500 doesn't seem like much of an investment in the future.

Hats off the North Easton for their effort.

If good help is hard to find, it is mainly because good compensation is even harder to find. Bean counters may be ineducable on the subject.

[What dopey spell checker does not know the word "ineducable"?]

Technical training of young boys is job of Government. We in India have hundreds of Industrial Training Institutes managed by Govt. These ITIs train young boys, who can not afford to go to colleges, in technical skills such as Machinists, Electrictians, Welders, Fitters etc. Are there no such Institutes in U.S?.

No, and there won't be as long as for-profit colleges and for-profit manks make obscene amounts of money with ever-rising tuition costs and ever-expanding, non-dischargable(1) student loans.

Notes:

1) Not even filing for total insolvency will discharge Student Loan debt. Bankruptsy is supposed to be a 'fresh start' when you've found yourself in a financial hole you'll never be able to dig out of on your own. But with the new laws, even if you have absolutely nothing, the banks can hound you FOREVER on money you'll never be able to give them.

Sorry to hear this. U.S being rich country, can afford to fight wars in other countries, but can not give basic training to young boys in various trades. Send your boys here we will train them at very low cost.

There certainly are. I can't speak for the entire country, but here in New England we have a number of Technical High Schools. They cover a wide range of technical subjects, from machinist to IT to culinary arts. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work with several "tech school" machinist graduates. They are excellent employees. As a matter of fact, the company I now work for has several people in supervisory positions that graduated from the machine shop program at Diman Voc in Fall River, Massachusetts.

I'm happy for you over there. All the 'Tech' high schools I've come across in my travels around Chicagoland (including my old alma mater AND their most hated rival) have all change from being 'Tech' schools to being College Prep. They've even taken the word Tech out of the school names, which renders the old Gordon Tech's logo, a capitol G and T combined into a single letter, an off artifact of a bygone era.

Technical training of young boys is job of Government

Why not young people. Is this a statement of predigous aganist the female gender?

Sorry I meant both young boys and girls.

THANK YOU for mentioning the elephant in the room.

We don't have a 'skills gap' as in no trained people to do the work, we have a 'payroll gap' between what companies think they can get away with spending for spilled persons and what the skilled persons need to cover gas, food, rent/mortgage, and the student loan payments they incurred to get those skills.

The problem is that the 'corporate minds' have brainwashed themselves into thinking of people as a mere commodity, as in 'we need 13 head of people to complete this project.' Once they remember that people are a long-term investment (and they do remember 'investment,' they watch their stock prices rise and fall on the NYSE) then they'll remember what they need to do to close the 'payroll gap.'

Hopefully they'll do it before they destroy the national and global economies and the environment too much more.

The unfortunate thing is that good pay doesn't usually correct the labor deficiency until enough time elapses to get people into field "x". Then what can happen is that the supply system will issue a glut of people dreaming about those lucrative incomes, and all of a sudden there are fewer jobs. In some cases, like engineering, it can be hard to get in because some colleges and universities almost seem to take delight in how many students they can wash out of their engineering programs into their business schools.

US earmarks $600 million to update job training

How much will actually go to training, and how much will go to administrative costs?

With government, administrative costs run upwards of 50%.

Fifty percent or more!?!?

Robin, I'm afraid you (like the Federal Reserve) give the government too much credit.

Remember, the administrative costs also need to me monitored, so there's an administration to keep track of the administration, driving the 'administrative costs' to closer to 75%. The more layers, the more 'oversight(1)' and the more oversight, the more money that can get funneled to friends and cronies through kickbacks, grafts and 'no-bid' contracts.

Notes:

1) Does it seem strange that the word the government uses to describe committees that are supposed to watch over the activities of political groups in government use as their name the same work normally used to indicate 'something forgotten or missed'?

I was trying to be nice. I'm afraid you are probably closer to the truth than I ever wanted to know.

I'm afraid 'nice' is something I reserve when talking about/to people, animals, plants, and machines.

I've yet to find a politician who meets the basic definition of 'people,' probably because all the politicians I've come across come from that other non-person group, 'lawyers.'

I do, however, entertain the notion than I am 'too cynical,' from having grown up in Chicago and have spent my whole life seeing 'Chicago Politics' in action. It's just vanishingly rare that someone can present a counterpoint of a politician being 'good,' that I cannot disassemble by pointing out the agenda of the groups (or the 1%er) funding that politician. In Chicago, they say the 'honest politician' is the one who stays bought after you buy him.