The skills of American workers in today’s labor market
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Are the education and skills of American workers adequate to the demands of today’s jobs? For at least three decades, academics and policymakers have heatedly debated this question. First came the perception, current in the 1970s, that the American labor force was overeducated relative to labor market needs. By this view, American workers faced a rough future in which their rising educational levels and aspirations for meaningful work had outstripped the demands of jobs available to them.
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