oswego literacy summit
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April 26, 2010
Oswego Employer Workforce Literacy Summit
John Twomey, NYATEP
What We’ll Talk About Today
• There are a million good reasons why good literacy and numeracy skills are important to individuals, their families, the community, and the country
• Certainly if “financial literacy” was more widespread then we would have had fewer people taking some exotic mortgages that hurt them as values plunged
• But that’s not what we’re talking about today…• We’re talking about the importance of a highly
literate workforce in this 21st Century economy
My Premise
• Good Literacy and Numeracy Skills are absolutely essential to earning a middle class living in the 21st Century.
• Adult Basic Education can no longer operate separately from occupational training.
• When WIA is reauthorized, Title I and Title II will be much closer aligned.
• Here’s why…..3
Some statistics from….
5Ed Gordon, Futurist
When It All Changed Employment Gains by Education: 1992-2002
National Statistics
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7.00Less than HighSchool--(-.4M jobs)High School -- +.1jobsSome College-- +2.4 M jobs2 Year Academic--+2.2 M jobs2 year Technical--+2.6 M jobs4 Year Degree-- +6.4 M jobs
Employment Policy Foundation tabulation of BLS Statistics
Travels with John
• The airport• The car rental counter• The toll booth• The hotel• The gas station• Kinko’s• Penn Station
• Three days, millions of jobs lost to technological replacement. So what does this mean for workforce development in the US, your State, your institution ?
Earnings Gain HSDO to GED/HSD
Earnings Gains HSD to Associate’s
Earnings Gains HSD to B.A.
Working Age Adults HSDO
Adults Aged 25 – 64 HSG only
Adults Aged 25 – 64 HSG only
Job Openings by Skill Level
US Unemployment Rate
Vacant Jobs 2009
Reach Higher America
Language Challenge
Credential Challenge
LiteracyNumeracyChallenge
Post-SecEducationChallenge
Total
Number of U.S. Adults(18 – 64)
6,466,383
23,247,930
34,288,383
23,997,303
88,000,000
Percent ofTotal U.S.Adults(18 – 64)153 Million
4.7%
17.0%
20.1%
15.7%
57.5%
NAEP
National Assessment of Adult Literacy Skills
• 14% of United States working age people are in NAALS level 5 status
• NAALS Level 5 – can’t balance a checkbook, either totally illiterate or maybe can read a sentence
• New York State NAALS Level 5 percentage is 22%
• New York is 49th of 50 states (Vt= 7%, Mass= 10%, Ct= 9%, NJ= 17%, Pa= 13%)
• Oswego NAALS Level 5 is 12% http://www.nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/StateEstimates.aspx
• 30 counties in New York are below Oswego’s 12%
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Opportunities
• President Obama called the investment in community colleges crucial because "jobs requiring at least an associate degree are projected to grow twice as fast as jobs requiring no college experience" in coming years. "We will not fill those jobs, or keep those jobs on our shores, without the training offered by community colleges," he said. – CNN 7/14/09
• Rahm Emmanuel “We must make a college degree as universal as a high school diploma. More than ever, America's success depends on what we can learn. In this new era, college will be the greatest engine of opportunity for our society and our economy.”
• Council of Economic Advisors “Occupations requiring higher educational attainment are projected to grow much faster than those with lower educational requirements, with the fastest growth among occupations that require an associate’s degree or a post-secondary vocational award.”
Challenges
• From 1963 to 2005 enrollment at two-year colleges has increased over 600 percent, eclipsing the increase in four-year enrollment which was only 200 percent, (BUT)…..
• Completion- Six years after students began their postsecondary education, 62 percent of adult “employees who study”—working learners who put their work before their studies, or in economic parlance have a high labor market had not completed a degree or certificate and were no longer enrolled, while 37 percent had achieved a degree or certificate.
• WHY?? Many have rusty basic skills and struggle academically. They work in low-paying jobs and lack resources to invest in education.
• They lack good information about labor market opportunities and become frustrated at what their education is getting them.
From Working LearnersWorking Learners, , Louis Soares, CAP 2009
WIA Funding
ProgramProgram
Year New York State
Allocations2000 304,953,605$ 2001 257,333,620$ 2002 217,667,870$ 2003 216,044,909$ 2004 223,356,562$ 2005 234,418,297$ 2006 197,433,309$ 2007 190,776,050$ 2008 159,224,210$
Difference 2000-2008
(145,729,395)$
% Difference 2000-2008
-47.79%
WIA
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WIA FundingProgram Years 2000 to 2008New York State Allocations
Theory vs. Fiscal Reality
Program FY09 Enacted FY2010House Labor H
FY2010 Senate Labor H
WIA Adult $861,540,000 $861,540,000 $861,540,000
WIA Dislocated $1,183,840,000 $1,183,840,000 $1,183,840,000
WIA Youth $924,069,000 $924,069,000 $924,069,000
Employment Service
$703,576,000 $703,576,000 $703,576,000
Perkins VATEA $1,271,694,000 $1,271,694,000 $1,271,694,000
Adult Basic and Literacy Education
$567,468,000 $639,567,000 $641,567,000
GEDs awarded per 1,000
Enrollment in ABE per 1,000 dropouts
Affordability
Affordability
Affordability
Affordability
ESL per 1,000 Adults
The Demand Side
Next Steps – Your Call
• After I’m done here today I get to go home• You guys have the hard work to do • If this group doesn’t aggressively raise the alarm on this
issue, who will ?
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