That is why we need New England and RI to do innovative things that are from well educated people who have new ideas and can make things or service things from RI rather than China or other countries.
Whether it comes from the artistic community or from the technology area, there are things that can be done. Providence has a few incubator sites for small and growing businesses to bounce off each other with synergistic ideas that make one plus one equal three or four.
One can not pay more value if the prices are not there, thus the poorly educated no skills workers will not be able to get high paid jobs. The schools have allowed too many students to pass thru without an education they can sell in the marketplace.
I am sure most of us buy products made abroad and most of those products are made by low skilled workers abroad, but even those jobs are fewer here.
How many of the low skilled folks have tried to take advantage of the trainings thru Network RI or other job training places? Many of our own students can not read and some are unskilled illegal aliens who won't take advantage or can't and won't take the time to learn English if they came legally now even with the job situation so critical.
There are many issues which create the problem and we need to pull all the pieces together for solutions and not attack things piecemeal to point fingers, but lace the fingers and the hands together of all parties for solutions
