Re:The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospec...
by WillPostForFood on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:41PM
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And we didn't pay for re-skilling, re-training, re-education.
This was the old "learn to code" moment. You are going to take a 50 year old auto worker with a high school degree and train them to do what? We have tried it, we have invested in it, is just doesn't work well.
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
You are better off using trade policy to at least slow down offshoring to give people a chance to move, retrain, retire if they are close.
This was the old "learn to code" moment. You are going to take a 50 year old auto worker with a high school degree and train them to do what? We have tried it, we have invested in it, is just doesn't work well.
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
You are better off using trade policy to at least slow down offshoring to give people a chance to move, retrain, retire if they are close.