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Byline: Ilana Mercer, SPECIAL TO INSIGHT
R ecently, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao announced her "Skills to Build America's Future" initiative. This is a "nationwide outreach and education effort designed to attract young people and transitioning workers to the key occupations of the (near) future: skilled trades."
This initiative, understandably, was proclaimed with little fanfare. While President George W. Bush looks toward Mars, Chao hardly can be proud of her decidedly pedestrian prophecy that "construction laborers, operating engineers, carpenters, ironworkers, cement masons, bricklayers, truck drivers and many other construction-related crafts are among the trades expected to see the greatest demand in workers over the next six years." (This demand will be filled, I predict, by "guest workers" i.e., illegal aliens awarded shiny new government permits.)
Telling America's young people that...
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