Workforce Development: The Key to Prosperity in the 21st Century

For the century of approximately 1870 through 1970, America’s ongoing industrialization brought growing prosperity to much of its citizenry and, after World War II, created a broad middle-class society. After the mid-1970s, however, de-industrialization or the movement of manufacturing production to other countries resulted in growing economic and social stress on many of the working class who did...