Future Workers: Do they include minorities?
by Eduard Terrones Simms

Posted: April 4, 2005

Ten to fifteen years ago there was a great deal of discussion about the aging working population and how jobs would have to be filled by the younger, more diverse workforce of the next working generation. The idea was that through education and training this country's youth would take over the jobs, especially the technical and professional jobs, of the aging, mostly White male work force.

The question has become whether that is actually taking place, or are other hiring decisions being made by employers which exclude the younger workforce from obtaining, what where, available jobs. Outsourcing, job elimination and the relocation of whole companies to other countries may be affecting the future opportunities of our younger workforce.

Is the fact that the younger workforce is more diverse, especially when considering the Hispanic population, having an impact on how employers are making hiring decisions? Is there a lack of social will, on the part of both employers and the government,  to train and educate young minority workers to fill the jobs that are being vacated. Or has it become easier for employers to ignore the issue all together and just outsource or move, without any government oversight?

These are some of the questions to be discussed in the upcoming article.

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