At a briefing Monday, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis spoke about the need for more employment opportunities for the 9.1% of Americans out of work and the role government can play in facilitating job creation.
“The priority is to connect with the businesses, so that we’re not training people for jobs that don’t exist, but for jobs that are open,” Solis said, highlighting jobs in the green industry, such as information technology and battery-operated cars as examples of industries that need growing numbers of people. “There are so many people, in terms of unemployed, but the jobs they are seeking might not be available, which tells me we need to start making investments in other fields.”
