Robert L. Smith, Cleveland Plain Dealer
- As the region and the state strive to prepare workers to compete in the new economy, a local research group warns that huge numbers of people are likely to be left behind.
Tens of thousands of black men are not only unemployed but also nearly unemployable in a knowledge-based economy, so investments in higher education and in high-skills job training will not reach them, PolicyBridge argues in a study to be released today.
“The Job Prescription: Examining Pervasive Joblessness Among African-American Men” argues that creative strategies are needed to re-introduce the working life to jobless black adults, some of whom have given up on ever finding steady work.
