> In the old days you expected to be at the same company until you retired. These days you're lucky if you are there for five.
It sounds like you want to shift the onus of training from the organization that benefits from the training to taxpayers and workers. Why is that? Why not try to shift the employer/employee leverage balance to incentivize employers to again train its labor force, provide long-term employment, and give an improving quality of life to its workers? It's not like people stopped being long-term employees for no reason. Employers stopped showing loyalty because they didn't need to anymore. Given the fact that wages have been stagnant since the 70's when trickle-down economics were enacted, yet large corporations have seen massive gains, wouldn't you say it's time for a different approach to the direction of our economy?
This is all also assuming that Americans need a combination of experience and education to get ahead, which is just false. Education does help, but only pockets of highly populated areas of the country are experiencing growth at the moment. The rest is stagnating or on the decline... But that is a different issue that involves the dissolution of anti-trust laws more than an employer/employee leverage shift[1].
It sounds like you want to shift the onus of training from the organization that benefits from the training to taxpayers and workers. Why is that? Why not try to shift the employer/employee leverage balance to incentivize employers to again train its labor force, provide long-term employment, and give an improving quality of life to its workers? It's not like people stopped being long-term employees for no reason. Employers stopped showing loyalty because they didn't need to anymore. Given the fact that wages have been stagnant since the 70's when trickle-down economics were enacted, yet large corporations have seen massive gains, wouldn't you say it's time for a different approach to the direction of our economy?
This is all also assuming that Americans need a combination of experience and education to get ahead, which is just false. Education does help, but only pockets of highly populated areas of the country are experiencing growth at the moment. The rest is stagnating or on the decline... But that is a different issue that involves the dissolution of anti-trust laws more than an employer/employee leverage shift[1].
[1] http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and-...