The Inconvenient Truth About Unemployment
What if you someone told you that there was a city in America with an unemployment rate of 6.8%, over 14,000 unemployed and yet employers in that city couldn't find qualified workers? That city is Fort Wayne Indiana, located 160 miles Southeast of Chicago. There are many employers nationwide who have similar challenges in finding workers with skills to fit their requirements. Over the past four years there has been plenty of rhetoric about jobs and job creation however putting people to work isn't as simple as it sounds. Employers when allowed to speak candidly will tell speak of the difficulties in finding workers with basic or 'soft' skills such as speaking and writing or basic math. The owner of a small business services company spoke to the wall St. Journal recently about the number of positions that go unfilled due to inability to write a coherent letter, use correct grammar while speaking, understand basic mathematics, interact well with clients and show up fo