John Prout, chairman of Partners for a Competitive Workforce and President/CEO of TriHealth, Inc., and Fred Dedrick, Executive Director of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, authored an op-ed that ran in the Cincinnati Enquirer on June 18, 2012 titled, "Worker training key to local economy." Click here for the article.
"Cincinnati is showing how communities can address a local mismatch between what skills employers need and the available workforce...Data coming out of Cincinnati show that training programs can be developed that both deliver a return on investment to employers and create career paths for workers...The Cincinnati response is not the full answer to the national skills gap problem. It is proof, however, that communities can develop their own answers. That’s what it is going to take to get this economic recovery moving."
