[Peace-discuss] Food for thought?

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

Food for thought?  The question here, I guess is:  if this is actually the
case and if training people to have the right and most current needed skills
will take time, what kinds of stimulus can there be which does not reward
those who already have the skills and jobs while actually accomplishing the
production of something productive and useful in terms of tangible
infrastructure improvements and repairs as opposed to merely keeping the
economy, financial centers, and corporations up and running as usual with
little actual tangible benefits to the standard of living and needs of the
ordinary population.?

 

FOCUS | The Stimulus

http://www.truthout.org/011109Y

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The stimulus plan will create jobs
repairing and upgrading the nation's roads, bridges, ports, levees, water
and sewage system, public-transit systems, electricity grid, and schools...
But if there aren't enough skilled professionals to do the jobs involving
new technologies, the stimulus will just increase the wages of the
professionals who already have the right skills rather than generate many
new jobs in these fields. And if construction jobs go mainly to white males
who already dominate the construction trades, many people who need jobs the
most - women, minorities, and the poor and long-term unemployed - will be
shut out."

 

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