Creating Quality Jobs vs. Creating Quality Workers - Wait, What?

Creating Quality Jobs vs. Creating Quality Workers - Wait, What?:

Creating Quality Jobs vs. Creating Quality Workers

by jonpelto

Having completed the task of dropping my child off at college, I’m reminded of the challenge that faces our chief elected officials, whether in Washington, or here at home in Connecticut.

In particular, as the effects of the Great Recession continue to take its toll on the nation; those of us in the trenches are left to ponder about what is the proper balance when it comes to using public resources to create quality jobs versus creating quality workers.

In one of my old college economic textbooks, I found a definition of a public subsidy as, “the provision of economic value by a public entity to a private entity for purposes