Shrinking Workforce Endangers America's Small Businesses Examining the Need for the Skilled Workforce Enhancement Act


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Explores the growing shortage of highly skilled workers in America. Witnesses from various trades testify on the shortage of skilled workers, the effects on small bus., the aging pop. of workers, and the high cost small employers incur in training highly skilled workers in their industries. Witnesses: Mike DeWine, U.S. Senate, Ohio; William Bachman, Nat. Tooling and Machining Assoc.; Thomas Bettcher, Copeland Global/Copeland Corp.; Chris Leto, Tampa Brass and Aluminum; John Gooding, Gooding, Simpson and Mackes, Inc.; Thomas Holdsworth, Skillsusa-Vica; Patrick Murphy, Crest Electrical Co.; Randall Pence, Capitol Hill Advocates, Inc.
















Making America Work Again


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This report sets forth findings of a committee charged with recommending policies to create 10,000,000 new jobs through small business. It defines the problems of American workers and small business owners in a period of dramatic economic change. Emphasis is on solutions for the conditions that nurture enterprise and on what the country needs to do to encourage small business formation, a more secure environment for workers, and economic growth. Findings and conclusions are presented in four major areas: preparing the American people to compete; encouraging greater savings and investing them productively; expanding export groups, including those for small businesses; and minimizing the impediments to the growth of small firms. Five recommendations, outlining institutional mechanisms to focus sustained attention on the problems, are as follows: (1) mobilize the American people, (2) prepare the American work force, (3) invest in the future, (4) restore the "Yankee Trader" tradition, and (5) clear the decks--in other words, institutional reorganization of structures and processes to reflect new realities of global competition. Suggestions for implementation follow each recommendation. Appendixes include annotations--quotations from relevant literature--on numerous current economic concerns. (YLB)




Broke America


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Jump starting the economy by investing in small businesses Small businesses generate the majority of the country's new jobs and employ more than two thirds of American workers. Bestselling author John Mauldin and renowned small business expert William Dunkelberg come together to explain the economic collapse of America, rising unemployment, and what the government should do to ensure sustained economic growth. The solution, they say, is focusing on key investments in small businesses across the country. The government policies in place today that are intended to spur growth in the small business sector are at best benign, mostly due to a lack of understanding on the part of the politicians. To help bridge this knowledge gap, Broke America: How Business & Government Can Create Jobs and Grow the Economy offers advice on how to move the economy forward by investing money in small businesses. The book addresses: The economic collapse of America and its effect on small businesses Ever-increasing unemployment rates, including the causes and potential remedies The steps the government should take to properly invest in small businesses The steps small businesses should take to ensure steady growth in the future Economic rebounds start and end with the crux of the American workforce—the small business owner. Economist William Dunkelberg has appeared on numerous television networks and is frequently quoted in major news publications, while coauthor John Mauldin brings more than 20 years of experience in investment publishing and economic research. Together they have written a comprehensive guide to getting American businesses back on track after the longest recession since the Great Depression.




Congressional Record


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