We need a historic commitment to education, so that America is the most highly-educated, well-trained workforce in the world.

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"We have a well-trained workforce and one of the best call centres in the whole of the UK, " she said.

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My Middle Class Task Force and the Council on Environmental Quality recently released a report titled "Recovery Through Retrofit, " that explains some of these hurdles and how we can overcome them: providing homeowners with straightforward and reliable information on retrofitting their homes, reducing their costs to do it, and ensuring that we've got a well-trained workforce ready to make it happen.

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Some analysts believe that the United States cannot be internationally competitive, nor can the economy flourish, without a well-trained, well-paid workforce.

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The last thing I would say is that well-trained -- this workforce remains the most competitive in the world.

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Through a strategy of training a network of adult education teachers, the programme has created a pool of competent, well-qualified and highly trained workforce that is now spearheading community development activities.

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They tap an enthusiastic workforce of well-trained and educated engineers and developers.

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While this would have a negative impact on employees, it could have a positive impact on businesses looking to hire people with those skills as they would have a well-trained, ready-made workforce for less money than they would have paid otherwise.

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