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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

The need to reskill and enable individuals to learn marketable new skills during their lifetime will be a critical challenge – and for poorer nations, a sweeping challenge. More perpetual policies might be necessary to increase wages and support future aggregate demand ensuring workforce fairness.

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

The truth is, we don't actually compete much with China in our export markets; it's mainly with the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese. But I think we need a concrete proposal and leadership in that area. But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy.

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