[NLA] RE: NLA Discussion Wages For Men and Women: New Evidence Fora Growing Literacy Surplus

[Art LaChance]

David, Andres, and others,

I agree with David here.  I also think that employers are recognizing that HS graduates who should have 12th grade academic skills don't necessarily possess those capabilities and the employer may have to shift the bar for any particular job that requires those skills upward and the next step up is an AS or AA.  I don't think it has much to do with discrimination against races as much as it discriminates against illiteracy.  And personally I aplaud the move by employers to do so because this may help to reinstate the "need" for education that is currently depressed in our society.


Art LaChance
Gilmer Learning Center
Ellijay, GA


PDRNRI at aol.com wrote:

> Andres and others:
> One quick comment re Andres' implication that mminorities are being discriminated against in El Paso:  I would argue that the educational bar raising which may be happening at entry level or low-skills jobs is not exclusively an effort "to keep minorities down",  though minority oppression may be an outcome.   It's an oppression of any worker working in the kinds of jobs Andres refers to.  The corporate objective of moving such jobs overseas is to reduce the cost of labor.  The negative outcomes for workers in the United States of this trend (fewer jobs in the areas in which dislocated workers are skilled, increased competition for said jobs, increased pressure to acquire educational credentials, etc.) applies to all such workers.  I'm not sure if the corporate giants who dislocate these workers do so  in order to oppress minorites.  I think they do it more simply because they view their responsibility to increase profit as being greater than their responsibility to care for the
> workers-any workers- whom th
> y employ.
>
> David Hayes
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