Begs the question...Trained for what? Government jobs?
Are there millions of highly skilled jobs available?
Even if there were millions of skilled jobs available, who would work the low skill jobs?
Here’s some situations to illustrate:
You’ve got a young woman, made a poor choice and got pregnant at 17. Wasn’t able to finish high school, but did get a GED. She works at a fast-food joint and has to pay for child care because mom and dad want nothing to do with her. When she comes home, she has to take care of the kid and has no time or money to go back to school to get trained for a better-paying skill.
You’ve got a 20-year old male. Did drugs in high school, got poor grades, realized too late that drugs were bad news. Due to his bad grades, he can’t get into college. Not only that, the drugs blew out his ability to concentrate.
You’ve got a 19-year-old male. He comes from the inner-city and has been surrounded by crime all his life. He wants to get ahead, but because of something he did in his early teens that got him a criminal record, no one wants to hire him.
Do you see?
No....government jobs are NOT the solution. We don’t need MORE government...we need less. Any conservative worth his/her salt knows that instinctively. Even so...what does one do with people like these? The young woman would never survive with a minimum wage in the $3.50/4.00 per hour range . The other two wouldn’t be hired by most business owners.
Is there a solution....because the only things I can come up with are indentured servitude in exchange for having one’s basic necessities provided for, or starvation and death.
Am I missing something?