June 5, 2006

Business Education: The retraining gap

In this article about whether the loss of manufacturing jobs in Michigan will lead to increased enrollment in retraining programs offered by community colleges, Hal Stack, director of the WSU Labor Studies Center , provides his perspective. "I don't think we're going to have thousands of relatively young workers looking to be retrained to start another career," he says. He noted that most of the workforce reductions at Ford and GM are being accomplished through early retirement packages.

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