In the News

June 18, 2020

Smith’s Viewpoint: Boosting Future Economic Development

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.