[PEN-L:29459] Re: RE: Re: underemployment

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

> "Devine, James" wrote:
>
>
> > What does it mean to increase the demand for educated people? How
> does one do that?
>
> If "educated people" are defined as having exalted credentials, it's
> obvious that raising the demand for them involves more government
> efforts to do research on science and the like, to provide public
> services such as medical care, to provide education itself, etc. If
> there are more folks with basic education, this indirectly helps
> create a demand for highly credentialed folks.

A project such as the WPA is as utopian under present circumstances as
would be the demand for Communism (advanced) by 3:00 a.m. tomorrow.
Nevertheless, the principle of the WPA -- create the job that fits what
the applicant has to offer -- would be the core "answer" to this need.
All those people who can't read or can't read well and all those
brillian Ad agency types who ought to be unemployed: mix them together.
And I bet some math Ph.D.s driving taxis (some were in the late '60s)
would be delighted, were condtions right, to run a _real_ head start
program.

Hah! :-/

Carrol