Those Bio-Chemists Would Have Jobs If Only They Got the Skills Needed in a Modern Economy

The Washington Post ran perhaps the best ever in your face article to the pundits who talk about the skills gap. Just to remind people, the skills gap story is that there all sorts of jobs that are going unfilled because employers just can't find people with the necessary skills. In this story, the problem with the economy is not a lack of demand, the problem is that unemployed workers just don't have the skills for the jobs that are available.

This one gets repeated endlessly in spite of the...