Employers say they need workers with more skills and experience. At some point, we have to ask who is supposed to give workers the opportunity to acquire them.
OPINION
There were 818,000 unemployed Americans looking for their first job in September, up from 702,000 a month earlier. Employers, meanwhile, added just 29,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The numbers describe a labor market that has become particularly difficult to enter. But they also expose a contradiction we have spent years describing as a “skills gap”: companies say they cannot find workers with the experience they need while increasingly expecting workers to acquire that experience somewhere else. (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
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