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The shared responsibility of skills development

In the U.S., workers customarily have been responsible for their own skills development and education, whether through a college degree, vocational school, apprenticeship or on-the-job training. This was doable when jobs and tasks remained largely unchanged, or evolved at a slow enough pace that workers had time to adapt. That’s not the case today, where rapid changes to technology, shifting worker priorities, economic uncertainty and political upheaval require a much more dynamic business model.