“Good Jobs”: The Economic Issue of Our Time

A ringing challenge to American popular culture’s indifference to educational achievement has recently made headlines. President Barack Obama declared, “Education is an economic issue, if not the economic issue of our time.”

With no end in sight to America’s long-term jobs meltdown, this is the critical moment for business, political, and community leaders to redirect their powers of persuasion. Calling the education status quo “morally inexcusable” and “economically indefensible”, Obama is challenging public opinion to accept the fact that the future of the U.S. economy and jobs require fundamental changes to a broken education-to-employment system. Read more