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Great column by Rahm Emanuel in WSJ about Chicago's new partnership between community colleges and employers. Favorite quotes include:

"The Chicago area has near 10% unemployment, but more than 100,000 unfilled jobs."

"at a time of high unemployment, more than 80% of manufacturers say they can't find skilled workers to hire."

"Recently I met a young student at a public-transit stop who was commuting from Harold Washington Community College, where he goes to school, to his night job at a department-store warehouse. Riding from downtown to the Southside, studying along the way, that student, like millions of Americans, is doing his part to ensure he has a shot at a good job. But those of us in government have not been doing our part to meet him halfway. We need to guarantee that the diploma he earns has economic value. I want that student to worry only about doing well in his classes, not about whether the skills he gains in those classes will earn him a job."

"I hope that cities across the country will follow Chicago's model. If we revive and modernize our training programs to match the needs of our high-growth industries, our community college system can catapult millions of people into employment and into the middle class, as it has done for generations of Americans."

Let's hope this initiative succeeds and is a model for other communities...﻿
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