Importing Workers

I comment often abut the poor education American students get in public schools and in college, despite the huge drain such education takes each and every year on taxpayers.

In the high schools, the U.S. has a high dropout rate. It’s interesting to see how we compare with other countries in this regard. Our rate is about 23%, Germany’s is under 3% and Japan’s a bit more than 5%; Great Britain’s about 9%. However, Portugal’s is 37% and Mexico’s 56%.

Little is said in the media about the result of U.S. immigration policy where we import even legal immigrants who do not have high school equivalency. How do we train them for the skilled jobs we need? There are already no jobs for the able. How do we prepare for the unready? (See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)