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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

More perpetual policies might be necessary to increase wages and support future aggregate demand ensuring workforce fairness. Education models have not on a very basic level changed in 100 years. We have learned from history that wages for some occupations can shrink for quite a while during labor force transitions.

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The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

Harvard Business Review

Education and training are at the top of the list. The education system must also do more to produce STEM workers and to ensure that workforce is diverse. But education alone will not be sufficient. What We Can Do. But the accompanying burdens and benefits should be distributed fairly, and this has not always been the case.”

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Obama says we need to educate people so they can work these high-skilled jobs. But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy. And even if we see a revitalization of the manufacturing sector, basically it's going to be built on high-tech and it's going to require high-skilled workers.

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