Matt Mead Quotes

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.

Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

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

Most of the people we're depending on for our economic future will not graduate from college. It is time we empowered them instead of ignoring them.

One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there.

We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And we have workers who lack the requisite skills to access these good-paying jobs in high growth industries.

To better deal with shortages of qualified applicants now and in the future, government policy makers need to acknowledge that government job training programs could stand improvement.

I understand the challenge with student loans. But what about the labor force, the enlisted men and women, so to speak, of ships. Those who work with their hands and their minds. We need to do what we do in the military, is we train and retrain.

First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.

Helping people get the skills they need to set them up for a rewarding career helps keep people in Connecticut, and it ensures that we have a workforce that's ready to fill the thousands of manufacturing jobs of the future.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

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.

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.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

There is a large change coming in the jobs of America and competition from abroad. We should prepare for it rather than let history overwhelm us.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

Our education system is not meeting the needs of today’s workforce much less tomorrow’s.

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

The young Americans of today are the workforce of tomorrow.