Ivanka Trump is help the White House launch a new program Thursday intended to beef up training and teaching for American workers as the U.S. contends with an economy increasingly shifting from assembly to the service and technology industries.
In an interview with Joe Kernen on CNBC’s “Cry Box,” the senior White House advisor and elder daughter to President Donald Trump burdened the need for workers in the middle and later stages of their careers to give birth to access to training that will help them transition to new hassles.
“We also have to be thinking about the mid- to late-career worker, who insufficiencies to be re-trained and re-skilled,” she said. “As a country, by and large, all investment in education quits at the age of 25, and that doesn’t work in such a fast-changing, increasingly digital compactness.”
The economy may look good now, with 4 percent unemployment, but large and humiliated employers are concerned that there aren’t enough workers with the moral skill sets to fill vacancies, Trump said.
President Trump is slated to clue an executive order for the initiative later Thursday.
The council will convergence on a “holistic approach” to the development skills, whether it’s during a person’s introductory and high school years or their working years, Ivanka Trump remarked, “and bring all of government together to devise a national workforce strategy.”
The conduct will also push for private-sector involvement, which will be a key play a part of the president’s announcement later Thursday, she added.