Labor secretary pushes education of Hispanics

“U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao on Friday urged a group of Hispanic media publishers to convey the importance of education to its readers.

Chao, who spoke at the annual conference of the National Association of Hispanic Publications at a resort here, said the United States is transitioning to a knowledge-based economy and will need workers with higher skills and more education.

“What were seeing is not so much a wage gap in our country, as a skills gap, she said. “Thats the mismatch between the skills required for the new jobs being created and the skills of some workers.Chao said that by 2014, 1.3 million computer specialist jobs and 4.9 million healthcare positions will open.”

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