For a nation yearning to rise above partisan rancor, 2022 brings great opportunity for consensus in advancing the mobility and skills of the American worker.
Progressives and conservatives, unions and industrialists, foreign policy hawks, and isolationists can all find common cause in the need for building a more competitive, skilled, and mobile U.S. workforce.
Whether you look at the economy and see a talent shortage or an opportunity shortage, behind both is a mobility shortage. The workforce we have won’t be the workforce we need unless workers gain skills and move ahead. Yet only 44% of those born in the late 1980s out-earn their parents, down from 90% for those born in 1940.
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