Adam Davidson Quotes
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Davidson, Adam. "It's the Economy." The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Company, 2012.
Fiji had undergone a succession of coups and the unstable political situation and the ethnic strife had caused man of the educated young people to emigrate. This “brain drain” is common in many third world countries.
At the time there was great demand for skilled computer programmers and other technical skills. But there was insufficient demand for many of the skills that the American Workforce such as airplane mechanics, or TV Camera people for example.
The nation was divided over the issue of immigration. Many observed that the vast majority of the immigrants—especially the illegal immigrants performed jobs for which American workers could not be hired. Opponents like the congressman, claimed that if better wages were paid Americans would be doing the jobs, and as long as there were immigrants who would work for low wages, there was little reason for employers to pay more.
The government had proposed extending public education beyond age 14, the age at which British business felt that extending public education beyond age 14 would divert too much of the labor force away from work and have a negative effect on the economy. Of course upper class youth stayed in private (called “public” in England) school way beyond age 14. See {46077} for a rebuttal by one of the British economists of the day.
Description of one of the problems of Cambodia in the 1960s.
In many eras in many countries, there have been major complaints about the quality of the pre-college education. This statement is typical of many made in 2010 America about the public schools. The term “public schools” in Engand refers to what we call private schools. In 1830, there were few pubic schools in the American sense of free, government operated schools.
Adam Davidson (born 1970) is an American journalist. He was a co-founder of NPR's Planet Money program. Previously he has covered globalization issues, the Asian tsunami, and the war in Iraq, for which he won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. He and Adam McKay were former co-hosts of Surprisingly Awesome from Gimlet Media. Davidson worked as an economics columnist for The New York Times Magazine and in 2016 took a position at The New Yorker.
