The people of this region, and our future economic prosperity depend on our ability to retrain the workforce that is going to be displaced by the Covid-19 pandemic and economic disruption. We need to build a training system in the context of an overall economic vision and as part of a holistic approach to revitalizing our economy. Mobilizing large-scale workforce retraining as a boost to both workers and companies is both possible and realistic if we adequately incentivize business and local education institutions to take on the creation of demand-driven training programs.

Pittsburgh Business Times article can be read in full here.