Amy Klobuchar Quotes

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

There are not enough good jobs for the skill levels we have.

We should absolutely train up U.K. workers - but it takes time to do that. And the reality is that there are a lot of E.U. workers that come here to do jobs that British-born workers will not do.

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

How many jobs can a small community afford to lose?—none.

If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.

I guess, as a young girl growing up in Liverpool in the '80s, when unemployment was high, my ideal job would have been to have been Minister for Employment to see, can you solve these problems? Can you get people into work?

When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.

We have lots of students graduating from our high schools, and you import the labor, then we're not giving that opportunity to our own folks.

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

The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.

What I hear from employers day in and day out is, 'I need to make sure I have that skilled workforce to compete.' And so we've been able to help so many people punch their ticket to the middle class by transforming our workforce development system for advanced manufacturing jobs and other critical jobs that exist right now.

If we have no foreign workers, our economy suffers; our own lives suffer.

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.

If we discover niche services that have been overlooked in our society, we can create many jobs for the unemployed, retired and young people.

High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result.

For too long the U.S. immigration system has focused on accepting low-skilled immigrants. Basic economics tells us that the surge of low-skilled workers depresses wages and harms the prospects of American workers.

While low-skilled immigrants have a place in our economy, a greater priority needs to be placed on attracting high-skilled immigrants to match the economy's needs.

I'm working with the New Dems, who are talking about the future of work, which is something I'm very interested in in New Jersey.

Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.

Cutting tax credits for education and training will result in more Americans working at minimum-wage jobs while U.S. companies go begging for the higher-paid skilled workers they need.