To help with this shortage, the administration's proposals for job-training programs do deserve support.
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The law gives companies points for doing things like funding job-training programs and hiring black workers at lower levels.
Tom Coburn (R-OK) reported last year that in his home state a job-training agency employed 2.3 people for every person it trained.
It ignores the 47 separate job-training functions buried in these departments that the Government Accountability Office identified as almost all duplicative and wasteful.
It would be far better, she says, if states could combine these funds more flexibly for job-training, as they were allowed to do with welfare.
The most effective anti-poverty measures are better education and more job-training.
Randomised trials have been used to evaluate the effectiveness of driver-education programmes, job-training schemes, classroom size, psychological counselling for post-traumatic-stress disorder and increased investment in public housing.
Previous research in the U.S. suggests, for instance, that investment in job-training programs for unemployed workers and extensions in unemployment benefits have a dampening effect on suicide rates.
The cash will be used to pay homeless young people for taking part in community projects, such as mural painting, as well as for education and job-training programmes.
Bahrain, which clings to its reputation as the Gulf's financial centre despite a simmering three-year insurgency, has set its sights on becoming the job-training capital of the Gulf.
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He proposed individual job-training accounts and a school-voucher programme.
The job-training programs announced by the Obama administration in his State of the Union address are sensible, but they won't soon bridge the gap for workers with skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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The trouble, she says, is that the federal government runs lots of other programmes for low-income people, such as schemes giving money for job-training, but each of these is set up to serve a specific set of clients under rigid rules.
Since then, Gore has highlighted many of those efforts in his travels as Vice President, touting the prayer and Bible study included in a job-training program in San Antonio, Texas, and the spiritual component in a San Francisco initiative to get welfare mothers off drugs.
But 85% of the people who completed the sales skills courses either have a job offer or on-the-job training.
Mr Miliband said the initiative was different from the government's Youth Contract in that it guaranteed a paid job on the minimum wage and on-the-job training, saying one of the government's work experience scheme was "the only work programme in history which does not guarantee work".
Heinrich's nonprofit, Inner-City Filmmakers, provides free hands-on job training and placement for low-income minority youth, giving them increased access to the film and television industry.
But it warns against a preoccupation with pre-job training, which often teaches the wrong skills and misses basic graces (such as time-keeping and not being cheeky to the boss) that many claimants lack.
His on-the-job training has been as good as it gets, even if it's lasted so long.
These students must attend a Federal Aviation Administration certified school and receive long-term on-the-job training.
The middle has been hollowed out, on-the-job training is rare and good posts hard to come by.
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But 100 interns from the school will be working alongside the professional hotel staff to get on-the-job training and mentoring.
It overrates formal bookish education and underrates on-the-job training, as well as U.S. capital markets, dynamism and resiliency.
Or was it on-the-job training to prepare him for the kind of challenges he will one day face?
Once selected, they would attend an intensive summer school followed by on-the-job training alongside their final year of university.
As an example, the authors note that most high-skill jobs require only a high-school education in conjunction with on-the-job training.
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But increasingly, says Jenny Sutton of the Hong Kong-based RFP Company, clients are refusing to pay for junior staff's on-the-job training.
Bristol Together, which launched in 2011, has secured funding to buy 40 derelict houses and will offer on-the-job training to repair them.
The position requires only moderate-term on-the-job training and entails preparing patients and dental equipment and keeping track of inventory and medical records.
Maybe not, but possibly via an advanced on-the-job training program, you could.
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