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F. EDUCATION AND TRAINING <br />A primary variable cited for the growing income gap in the United States has been the <br />ijk level of education attainment. This has been, in part, due to the loss of well paying <br />X JL unskilled labor jobs to technology and international competition, with even basic job <br />holding skills or abilities substantially lacking among those in poverty. This is exacerbated by the <br />productivity gains that technology and international competition has given those with higher levels <br />of education. The focus of raising people’s skill level beyond poverty is not so much general <br />education as specific job and living skills, together with business training. <br />GOAL <br />Focus educational and skill de\>elopment efforts to retain adolescents in <br />school and to encourage adults living in poverty to go back and complete <br />their education. These efforts should instruct and promote stability and <br />independent living. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />ave both public and private training providers make existing and, where needed newly <br />I I developed training relevant to the emerging job and labor markets. <br />Asa prevention measure, efforts should be made to retain students in general education <br />programs, motivating them to seek additional skills training and education level necessary to get a <br />“living wage job.” General K-12 education should provide the necessary building blocks for <br />present and future employment opportunities. <br />ROLE OF STATE GOVERNMENT <br />• Work with other metropolitan groups, such as the Greater Minneapolis Chamber of <br />Commerce and the Metropolitan Councii, in assuring that the educarional process <br />provides the necessary skills to help students land jobs. <br />ROLE OF REGIONAL AGENCIES - COUNTIES, METROPOLITAN COUNCIL <br />• Educate businesses of the ongoing training needs and availability pardcularly in the <br />areas of jobs skills and diversity. <br />• Promote implementation of AMM’s policies on Neighborhood Livability - Educational <br />Opponunides (A7). (See Appendix H) <br />■II • 1 <br />Urban Strategies Task Force Report 21