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OPINION: Why we must invest in new, innovative workforce training to fill a skills gap

The Hechinger Report

In Texas — where the energy system failed those who depend on it — and elsewhere, our infrastructure is only as good as the technology that supports it. Through 2029, growth in the IT sector is expected to rise 11 percent and add over half a million jobs to the U.S. economy, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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‘We’re aides, not maids.’ How one high-demand job shows education system’s failings

The Hechinger Report

It will take a complete and substantial change in the training system, career pipeline, pay and work conditions of home health aides, experts and advocates say. The need for home health aides is projected to grow by 34 percent between 2019 and 2029. or OIC-DC, trains people to be home health aides.

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Decoding the price of college: Complexity of figuring out costs holds students back

The Hechinger Report

But while plane tickets vary by carrier, date of purchase and luck, college costs hinge on reported family income, assets, the grades a student got in high school, the type of institution they want to attend and mastery of a complicated application system. Colleges are required to have these on their websites; the U.S.

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?Preparing For an Unknown Future

Edsurge

Our 4 million kinders will leave public school in 2029 having spent more than 16,000 hours of their lives doing mandatory classroom time, and if they are lucky, they will enter the job market sometime in the 2030s. That is because the current design of the school system is more than 100 years old.

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