Carol at CEOs for Cities speaks a lot about increasing the number of college-educated people in America (and especially in its cities), but she's always met with two arguments: We can't employ the talent we do have, and many of our jobs only require associate degrees or technical training.
So why keep pushing "talent"?
Carol says that she pushes for talent because, in national surveys, 64 percent of college-educated young adults say that they choose the city first, then the job; cities with the most talent are the best positioned to recover quickly; and talent is a source of entrepreneurs who create jobs.
She was reminded of these arguments while reading a
New York Times piece on forced entrepreneurship, about out of work people who have had to create their own jobs to get by.
As she points out, small firms contribute to a large portion of out workforce -- firms with fewer than 10 employees have 12.4 million workers, approximately 11 percent of the private sector workforce.
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