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2. http://www.umassd.edu/ppc Twitter: @Mike_Goodman
Framing the Massachusetts Workforce Challenge Michael D. Goodman, Ph.D. Professor of Public Policy Executive Director, the Public Policy Center (PPC) University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Co-Editor, MassBenchmarks

3. Our central competitive advantage is the talent and innovative capacity of our people

4. Our population isn’t growing fast enough the old fashioned way
Source: Population Estimates Program, UMass Donahue Institute

5. We rely on foreign born workers to keep our workforce growing
Source: (2016) Clayton-Matthews, A. & Nakosteen, R. “Economic Strength Girds Massachusetts in a
World of Economic Uncertainty” MassBenchmarks, Volume 18, Issue 2, pp

6. STEM workers are in high demand in a wide variety of STEM and non STEM settings

7. Postsecondary education is increasingly a prerequisite for a living wage outside the skilled trades

8. Focus on: Improving access to postsecondary education

9. Focus on: Reducing barriers to labor force participation

10. Focus on: Developing the so-called “soft skills”

11. Focus on: The very different needs of our regions and labor markets

12. Focus on: Closing the Educational Achievement Gap
Inadequate educational opportunity not only wastes much needed talent, it also denies economic opportunities to working families and low-income communities
Source: The Massachusetts Education Equity Partnership