Workforce Development

Association members have become increasingly concerned about the competitiveness of U.S. based business operations and federal, state and local education and training programs and policies. Employment opportunities occur at the intersection of innovation, financial resources, markets, and the availability of a skilled workforce. With the world becoming more challenging each day, chief human resource officers believe far more could be done by the United State to coordinate government support of these key job producing elements. With unemployment expected to remain high for several months or years to come in many industrialized nations, the Association is in the process of developing a set of recommendations for public policy and private sector actions to address this critically important issue.