Opinion
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.
Independent Business, Technology & Culture
Sunday, August 16th, 2026 105 stories Independent & Reader-Supported
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.
Decades of job training funding produced mixed results. The programs now showing measurable wage gains share one feature: an employer at the table before the curriculum is written.