Obama to Offer $100 Million Job Skills Education Plan

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

President Barack Obama plans to announce a $100 million competitive grants program to help equip high school students with skills needed to compete for jobs in a global economy increasingly reliant on technology.

The program, called Youth CareerConnect, would award as many as 40 grants ranging from $2 million to $7 million each in the 2014-2015 academic year to schools that link up with higher educational institutions or employers, according to a White House fact sheet.

The goal is to motivate high schools to innovate and restructure parts of their curriculum focusing on increasing students’ employment chances in business or industry as a way to boost U.S. economic growth. Grant money will come from the Labor Department, according to the fact sheet.

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Not every student has to go to a four-year college, Obama said at a steel plant in Cleveland on Nov. 14. “You’ve got to have a little bit of advanced training,” he said, and it may “come through a community college or it may come through a technical school.”

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-19/obama-to-offer-100-million-job-skills-education-plan.html

[daleanime]

1. "Job skills"? That's nice....

but we need to be funding education period. With the unemployment rates we have anyone even thinking of going to school should be pushed in.

[jtuck004]

2. How will this increase demand so there are more jobs?

Or is it just going to increase student loans, which are already crippling tens of thousands of students?

We have over 20 million people unemployed, and JOLTS says about 3.9 million jobs. This sounds like more of a giveaway to industry than help for working people.

[vinny9698]

7. There have always been shortages in certain jobs.

Nursing, IT, health care specialist, teaching, to name a few.

[jtuck004]

8. Nurses are being laid off, thousands of teachers are out of work

and the majority of the "health care specialists" they are hiring are min. wage home health care aides.

And the BLS stats bear this out, in spades.

This is such utter bs, (not your post, the push to make banks more stable while screwing over a hundred million people) more wage servitude.

[Myrina]

3. Gee, let me guess ... Arne Duncan and Michelle Rhee are in charge of it ...

[L0oniX]

4. Chump change ...crumbs for the slave masses.

[ancianita]

6. Trudat. Watch who tries to defund the Labor Department.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. What part of China will it start in?

[Scuba]

9. Wow, that's nearly $1.40 per kid.

Well, less the profits raked off by the corporations that will administer the program.

[MichiganVote]

11. Hey watch it, Corporations are people you know.

[Brigid]

12. Then they're very dangerous and sociopathic people.

[MichiganVote]

10. We'll gee that's real nice since no one got the Race to the Bottom $$

The usual, "I got this", go nowhere pledge of nothing to get the media off my political ass BS. Right. A politician.

And hey, since Flunkin' Dunkin' has expressed such positive regard for the parents and their kids in the country, this should sell about as well as the ACA website.

[Bonobo]

13. Whoah! That's like 14 hellfire missiles!

Awesome!

[Cha]

14. K&R

[lutefisk]

15. Obama is no LBJ.

Obama's legacy will be that he presided over and facilitated the end of public education in the United States of America. Worse than George W. Bush! Who would have thought?

When it comes to education, Obama is a tool and a fool!

[Arkana]

16. Wow, never thought I'd see self-professed "liberals" sneering at people who didn't

want to go (or couldn't go) to a four-year college.

You guys are still laboring under the fantasy that Obama can implement Liberal Utopia via executive order, aren't you?

[Octafish]

17. Don't we need JOBS first?

Otherwise, all the skill in the world won't even land an interview.

[woo me with science]

18. While hoisting the sledgehammer of the TPP. nt