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That's a profound societal change you advocate. A 32 hour workweek? OK by me but I see that many employers are already going part time, which doubles the number of jobs - the hard way.
My son is one of those programmers and makes $100K a year. It's not so easy. He can get a job anywhere and were he willing to leave Las Vegas, get more like $150K.
Interesting that you say we have 11 million unemployed. Does that number ring a bell? Almost identical to the number of illegal aliens? Just saying.
Job creation is exactly the opposite of what is happening. Unless you're comfortable with massive market intervention by the USG, this trend will continue. There's more hope of teaching some to do the jobs we have than there is of making jobs appear by fiat.
My son is one of those programmers and makes $100K a year. It's not so easy. He can get a job anywhere and were he willing to leave Las Vegas, get more like $150K.
Interesting that you say we have 11 million unemployed. Does that number ring a bell? Almost identical to the number of illegal aliens? Just saying.
Job creation is exactly the opposite of what is happening. Unless you're comfortable with massive market intervention by the USG, this trend will continue. There's more hope of teaching some to do the jobs we have than there is of making jobs appear by fiat.
I personally suspect that those jobs aren't as plentiful as people are claiming they are.
A lot of companies will constantly advertise for positions, even though they might not have an immediate need. They do this to to build a portfolio of applications that they can draw from later when a spot does come open. I also think that some business owners and managers just like to claim that they can't find people with skills, when in reality they simply aren't willing (or able) to pay enough to get those people. I mean if I could find a great web programmer, capable of creating high end interactive web based applications, for maybe $10/hr, I would hire one in a heartbeat, but people with those types of skills generally wouldn't be willing to work for $10/hr, nor should they have to.
According to this, There Are 4 Million U.S. Job Openings: Why Are The Positions Unfilled? - Forbes, we have 4 million unfilled jobs. I suspect that is highly inflated, but even if we did, according to this, Employment Situation Summary, we have 11.8 million people who are unemployed and have looked for a job in the past 30 days. So that still nearly a 7 million job deficit, even if we filled every single job opening today.
I otherwords, even if everyone was well trained for every job, we would still have a shortage of jobs, so it looks to me that job training isn't the answer - job creation, or job sharing of some sort (shorter working hours) is the answer.