Getting Creative: More than Just Job Training at the Steel Yard

The problem seems simple enough: there are hundreds of metalworking jobs available in Rhode Island and not enough skilled workers to fill them. At the same time there are thousands of unemployed men and women who can not seem to find work. Why can those who are unemployed not acquire the technical skills for such positions and then fill them? Evidenced by the fact that this has been—and continues to be—a huge economic and social problem for the entire nation, the solution is far more complicated in practice than in theory. A diverse array of organizations, companies, and politicians have devoted expertise, time, and money to solve this problem in an equally diverse number of ways; yet, still, it persists