Douglas Holtz-Eakin Quotes

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce.

We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.

For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.

The American people recognize that their careers or their kids' careers are going to have to be more dynamic. That they might not be working at a single plant for 30 years. That they might have to change careers. They might have to get more education. They might have to retool or retrain. And I think the American people are game for that.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

I want to give people jobs and put them on great shows. I want to create careers for people.

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

We need a dramatic improvement in the way we train people who get displaced.

Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

If you are willing to be a lifelong learner, you can be a lifelong employee.

I think that there have definitely been points when I've had to fight to move my career in a different direction. I think, 2012, I did a few movies that touched on a darker side, and those are movies I'd been wanting to make and stories I'd been wanting to tell for a while. So I think it definitely takes work to move genres.

We need to make sure we do more job retraining, and that's why we're working to have a 5-million-apprenticeship dream.

If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business... that's where I came up with this idea of 'new collar.' Not blue collar or white collar.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.

There is still much work to be done to help our students secure good-paying jobs and achieve their ultimate goals, and in Congress, I'll continue to support Career and Technical Education programs.

We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.

Germany, Austria, Switzerland - they have vocational training that's aligned to the needs of business and don't have youth unemployment problems.

Apprenticeship is a proven model for developing a skilled workforce.