USA Workers Need English to Get Jobs
As unskilled jobs disappear in the USA - workers need skills to be hired in the industries that are hiring workers. ESL, math and technology are the big three education skill areas that workers will need for the new economy.
Quotes from Boston Globe Article
"In the city of roughly 70,000, where 71 percent of its residents identify as Hispanic or Latino in the latest US Census, language can also be a big obstacle to getting a job. He added that the average waiting period to enroll in an English as a Second Language program is a year."
In older industrial cities workers face a similar plight of waiting a long time to enroll in ESL classes. The director of Career Source — a state-funded job-counseling and training center believes that "unemployment in urban immigrant centers will drop after people enroll in ESL, computer, and math classes".
The director says, "non-English speakers — who are 43 percent of the unemployed her office serves — face a combination of challenges to obtain higher-paying jobs. She said 67 percent of the unemployed who use the career center have a high school diploma or less, and that 46 percent of the unemployed are “mature workers’’ — 45 and older. If you’re somebody in that age category and don’t have very good English skills, it’s rough".
Read the whole story Here:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2011/04/10/older_cities_still_losing_out_on_jobs/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Local+news
