Stop Calling It a Talent Shortage When You Mean a Training Shortage
Employers describe a scarcity of qualified candidates as an external condition, as though qualification were weather. It is a thing they used to produce and stopped.
Sunday, September 6th, 2026
Employers describe a scarcity of qualified candidates as an external condition, as though qualification were weather. It is a thing they used to produce and stopped.
Touring economics hollowed out the rung between the bar and the arena. The rooms rebuilding it are doing so with nonprofit structures, civic support and business models borrowed from theatre.