President Obama devoted a substantial portion of his 2014 State of the Union speech last night to explaining how he plans to improve the nation’s economy by connecting unemployed workers with skills-starved employers and strengthening the manufacturing sector.
“That means more on-the-job training, and more apprenticeships that set a young worker on an upward trajectory for life,” said the president. “It means connecting companies to community colleges that can help design training to fill their specific needs. And if Congress wants to help, you can concentrate funding on proven programs that connect more ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be-filled jobs.”
Obama announced that Vice President Joe Biden would oversee a job-training-reform program in order to connect unemployed workers with companies suffering from a shortage of skilled applicants. And he announced plans to open six new high-tech manufacturing hubs across the country last night, building on an existing program that already features two such hubs — known as Manufacturing Innovation Institutes — in North Carolina and Ohio. Even more such hubs could be opened if Congress offered funding support, he said.
Each institute is designed to serve as a regional hub designed to “bridge the gap between applied research and product development, bringing together companies, universities and other academic and training institutions,” according to a White House press release.
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