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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. We have learned from history that wages for some occupations can shrink for quite a while during labor force transitions. Organizations will be on the front lines of the workplace as it 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

Human capital investment must be at the center of any strategy for producing skills that are complementary to technology. Though there is still much we don’t know about how this wave of automation will proceed, there are several areas of action we can identify now. Education and training are at the top of the list.

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Demand is deficient and you need a strategy to fix that. What I missed in his speech was the strategy for the other 90% of the labor force. But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy. That can only be solved with stimulating total spending within the economy.

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