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-z- <br />'hie very magnitude of the problem at the county level suggests that <br />training and retraining be regarded as only one response to the problem. <br />A Second response fe to create and sustain more job opportunities £ocumed <br />on labor intensive products and services, where neither robotics nor <br />inexpensive overseas human resources can fulfill the need for specific <br />products and services. <br />The definition of the need, and an appropriate need response, is <br />conVlicated by the polarization of opportunity seen in the work place. <br />Professional opportunities requiring many years of education and special <br />experience are growing in the private sector. Opportunities for minimal <br />skills and earnings in various service functions are also growing. But <br />for both 'disadvantaged* and "dislocated• workers, the broad spectrum in <br />the middle range is disappearing. This middle range of employment <br />opportunities includes skilled manue wring and labor trades, <br />supervisory and middle management pos s, pare -professional and <br />technical jobs. In most cases, there it r, ey they can hope to enter <br />professional activities, and the alternatives at the other end of the <br />scale provide marginal economic resources for survival. <br />The need is for job opport_>••+.ties in the middle range, for opportunities <br />requiring human abilities and skills rather than extended specialized <br />training, and for these opportunities to be developed more rapidly in the <br />immediate future here and now in Hennepin County. <br />[Usin' _ Lm: II _ ._ _ ... :11:C4 <br />