I spent years running AmeriCorps. The best job training in America isn’t happening in the classroom
Source: Fortune ·
Nobody knows yet exactly how AI reshapes that first rung of the ladder. But we don't need to know that to act on what we do know.
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For the first time since the New York Fed started tracking these numbers in 1990, a recent college graduate is more likely to be unemployed than American workers in general. Unemployment for recent grads held at about 5.6 percent this year, up from under 4 percent before the pandemic. Depending on who you ask, artificial intelligence is either about to make this far worse or create tens of millions of new jobsin the next decade. It’s too early to be too confident on either side of the debate. But whoever’s right, young people are already struggling with a strong on-ramp to work. I’ve spent my career focused on economic and educational pathways for youth from underserved communities, and as the leader of Eckerd Connects, I can’t walk into a room without being asked how concerned I am that AI will obliterate the next generation’s chances of having a prosperous future. Employers tell me constantly that they can’t find workers with the basic interpersonal skills that hold an organization…