World Finance:
US must tackle growing skills gap
31 October 2017
However, not everyone agrees with the rhetoric emerging from the US regarding the failings of its workforce. Alan Manning, Professor of Economics at LSE argues: “The retraining process tends to work best for younger workers, not necessarily for the older demographics of workers.” He agrees that education is hugely important to addressing the skills gap in places like the US and UK, but added that “these are long-standing problems and have always been there”.