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Career Pathway Programs Can Fight Racial Inequality and End Labor Shortfalls
Author(s) -
Hawkins Channing
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/opfl.1513
Subject(s) - staffing , economic shortage , labour economics , institution , inequality , business , table (database) , economics , demographic economics , political science , management , law , philosophy , mathematics , government (linguistics) , computer science , data mining , mathematical analysis , linguistics
It's no secret that the United States faces a growing shortage of skilled workers. In 2019, according to the Department of Labor, there were nearly 1 million more open positions than there were Americans to fill them, leaving the US economy unable to operate at full capacity with good‐paying middle‐class jobs left on the table. This skilled worker shortage has been felt even more acutely in the water sector, where, according to a 2018 Brookings Institution report, an expected “silver tide” of retirements is often resulting in staffing vacancies as high as 50%, a frequency and rate that are expected to increase in the coming decades.