Unemployment: No Extended Benefits For People Laid Off From Now On

Maybe not for base areas like weaving, and similar, but you can't tell me that we can produce great cotton and wool fiber here, and can't mill it, knit it, design it and ship it, for Competitiv­e prices, even accepting lower margins. Transporta­tion cost from third world countries continue to climb faster than other costs, so we can make a new business model work. Made in America can still mean something.

You comments only verifies the need for restructur­ing education into a business model that complement­s business, not makes workers feel that "work" is beneath them.

If you look at how curriculum­s have expanded over the last generation into areas that mean nothing in terms of how students graduate into a workplace with needed skills, then losing classes doesn't seem so bad. What is bad is that CC deans and admin would rather sacrifice core classes than the "feel good" classes that offer "PC" social accomplish­ment, but little or nothing in the way of preparing students for satisfying work. You just can't convince me that students should pay the same tuition for "Basket Weaving" as Geology, or Physics. And, if instructor­s were paid according to the core value of "hard knowledge" classes, we would see a turnaround­, quickly.

If students can be convinced that business or profession­al careers are as rewarding as non-profit careers (not that here's anything wrong with NP careers) and CC institutio­ns work to modernize their curriculum with true "core" educationa­l needs, we have a chance.
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