Decades of research shows job training programs don't work at scale because of lack of *supply* of appropriate good jobs. There are always nice learned-to-code stories (I'm one: started coding as a kid and it literally saved my life) but those don't scale.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html …
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I have seen many, many "teach computers to poor people" efforts over the year and studied them in my disseration. My most common observation is that they are wasting people's time and should just give people the money directly. Focus should be on living wage for realistic jobs.
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I don't discount the occasional success story, and I think there are a significant number of reasonable online resources for the few people who might be inclined & actually able to take this path. It just isn't a realistic path out of poverty in places like the one in this piece.
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I completely agree with your assessment. There was a similar problem in Florida when the manned space flight program was cancelled. There were literally thousands of highly-trained engineers with nowhere to go. The area reverted to its working-class origins...
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and was economically depressed for decades because the locals kept up the hope for the return of their heydays, but they never came. Florida did recover, but not due to the space programs.
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Yeah, you need jobs and then realistic educational paths to those jobs.
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