On October 6, 2016, Pew Research released this report on The State Of American Jobs:
How the shifting economic landscape is reshaping work and society and affecting the way people think about the skills and training they need to get ahead.
Tectonic changes are reshaping U.S. workplaces as the economy moves deeper into the knowledge-focused age. These changes are affecting the very nature of jobs by rewarding social, communications and analytical skills. They are prodding many workers to think about lifetime commitments to retraining and upgrading their skills. And they may be prompting a society-wide reckoning about where those constantly evolving skills should be learned – and what the role of colleges should be.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/10/06/the-state-of-american-jobs/
Unfortunately, while an educated population is absolutely desirable, even if EVERY child, woman and man achieved a college education, even a PhD we will not have addressed the REAL problem or the solutions necessary to make EVERY citizen a productive member of society in terms of inputting into the productive sector of the economy, no matter what their education level they have achieved.
See “Education Is Critical To Our Future Societal Development” at http://www.foreconomicjustice.org/9058/education-is-cri…etal-development.
Given the current invisible structure of the economy, except for a relative few, the majority of the population, no matter how well educated, will not be able to find a job that pays sufficient wages or salaries to support a family or prevent a lifestyle, which is gradually being crippled by near poverty or poverty earnings. Thus, education is not the panacea, though it is critical for our future societal development. And younger, as well as older people, will increasingly find it harder and harder to secure a well-paying job––for most, their ONLY source of income––and will find themselves dependent on taxpayer-supported government welfare, open and disguised or concealed.
