What Germans Know Could Help Bridge U.S. Workers’ Skill Gap

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President Obama freely admits that America needs to improve the way it trains workers. In a speech at a General Electric manufacturing plant in Wisconsin earlier this year, he said, “We gotta move away from what my labor secretary, Tom Perez, calls ‘train and pray.’ You train workers first and then you hope they get a job.”

The White House has tapped Joe Biden to review America’s jobs programs, a move welcomed by the German American Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta, which represents about 1,500 German companies throughout the South. FULL STORY

via NPR.

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