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Without free-market research and education, charter schools might have been just another forgotten fad from the 80s. Fortunately, Mackinac Center analysts and research advanced the notion that parents ought to have greater choices in their children’s education. Below are examples of what Center scholars and analysts have written on the issue over the years:
Mackinac Center’s 25-year Campaign to Expand Educational Choice
Adapted from a blog post by Michael Van Beek.
Robert Wittmann, 1992: “[C]ompetition cannot exist unless new suppliers are free to enter the market for educational services. One option currently under consideration is to ‘charter’ new schools into the public system. But, unless ‘charter’ schools enjoy reasonable autonomy, increased supply will not translate into ‘more and better choice.’”
12 Mar 2021
Two-thirds of entry-level tech jobs go to compliant foreign guest-workers, not to the young American professionals who may create a new wave of establishment-shaking companies, according to a report from Bloomberg.
In 2018, “the U.S. had between 96,000 and 143,000 openings in IT occupations that typically went to candidates with a bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering,” said the March 10 report, headlined “STEM Graduates Deserve a Better Path to Good Jobs.”
But the government each year provides “Occupational Practical Training” (OPT) work permits to hundreds of thousands of foreigners who have paid tuition to American universities. It also invites roughly 85,000 foreign graduates on H-1B work visas, the report says.
Within the first days of the new administration, President Biden signed a new “Made in America” executive order, which aims to generate manufacturing jobs through government demand for $400 billion in American products, materials, and services. As a candidate, Biden also committed to infrastructure investments as a keystone to job creation. As the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan was enacted March 11, an infrastructure proposal to spend $1 trillion or more is expected imminently within the next two weeks.
That’s a great step forward. Job creation is essential to our recovery from the entwined pandemic and economic traumas.
But at this crisis point, we must apply all tools to strengthen the anemic recovery, especially for lower-wage, women, and BIPOC workers. The country cannot again accept, as in the aftermath of the Great Recession, that
DEED launched a new effort to help Minnesotans across the state find Good Jobs Now (www.careerforcemn.com/GoodJobsNow).
Written By:
By Steve Grove, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development | 6:59 pm, Mar. 9, 2021
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve lost almost 390,000 jobs in Minnesota. While we’re on the path to gaining many of them back, we still have over 300,000 Minnesotans collecting weekly unemployment benefits – more the six times the average amount for this time of year.
Yet so many employers are hiring, and there’s lots of opportunity in our economy if workers are willing to pursue careers in new fields.