Researchers say trade schools could resolve income gap

• By: TMA Illinois
• On: 12/04/2017 15:07:52
• In: Updates

"As manufacturing sector becomes more important in a country's income, relatively unskilled laborers benefit from access to vocational education, thereby narrowing the income gap with skilled labor," Joshua Aizenman, the economics chair at University of Southern California, wrote in a CNBC.com piece last week. 

• Researchers are investigating how the United States can become more competitive in the manufacturing industry in the age of artificial intelligence.
• Some of their conclusions suggest that more investment is needed in vocational programs and not in large, four-year universities.
• "There are too many four-year colleges serving too many students, and too few institutions with greater focus on vocational education and training," the researchers said.