“That will help those unable to take advantage of digital technology because of a lack of broadband.” The report also noted that digital skills comparisons with other nations find U.S. “There’s also $55 billion designed to close the digital gap,” West added. “Twenty billion is a serious and important investment and is one of the strongest elements of the act,” Ezell said. The measure contains US$20 billion for youth and workforce development initiatives. That could change in the future, however, if the Biden Administration Build Back Better bill becomes law. The OECD - Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development - is an organization formed by 37 democracies with market-based economies collaborating to develop policy standards to promote sustainable economic growth.
government invests about one-sixth the OECD average in labor market retraining among the leading countries,” Ezell explained. “If you look at programs offered by governments, the U.S. “That translates, as well, as under-investment in digital skills.” “If you look at private sector investment in workforce training, it has fallen 30 percent as a share of U.S. “In the corporate world, there’s been a broad under-investment in workforce skills generally,” Ezell said. manufacturing increasingly demand a facility with digital skills, which is important for individual workers to be both competitive and productive, and for broader U.S.
The lack of digital skills in the manufacturing sector is particularly concerning, it added, especially because jobs in U.S. construction, transportation and storage industries, half of all workers have no or only limited digital skills, while that share is over one-third across the health and social work, manufacturing, hospitality and retail and wholesale industries, it continued. The lack of workforce digital skills is particularly acute in certain industries, according to the report. “That just leads to a country lacking in basic digital skills.” The report noted that more high school students in California take a class in pottery than in computer science. “They don’t like the hard sciences, and they haven’t developed their math skills,” he told TechNewsWorld. “American students aren’t taking STEM courses,” added Darrell West, vice president of government studies at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization in Washington, D.C. high schools have computer classes,” the report’s author, ITIF Director of Global Innovation Policy Stephen Ezell told TechNewsWorld. “It begins with insufficient teaching of digital skills in the K-12 education system. In essence, the ITIF reported, one in six working-age Americans are unable to use email, web search, or other basic online tools. workers lack digital skills, with 13 percent having no digital skills and 18 percent having, at best, limited digital skills, noted the report by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a science and technology institute. Many Americans lack the digital skills needed to be productive members of the workforce in the 21st century, according to a report released Monday by a Washington, D.C.
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