MiBiz asked Governor Snyder in a year end interview "Looking ahead to the next legislative session, what’s on your agenda to further improve the state’s business climate?" The Governor's response: "Number one would be career tech education for the skilled…
Corporate and political leadership continue to complain about the inability to find workers in the skilled trades/mid-skill jobs. Their solution is to go back to tracking kids––almost certainly others, not theirs––into vocational programs. One problem: if there are labor shortages,…
There is a lot of skepticism about a skill shortage in technical occupations –– the most publicized are in manufacturing –– because employers seem to be doing the opposite of what they should to respond to shortages. Mainly not raising…