It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.
Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.
I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education.
It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.
Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.
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