How the future will work

August 3, 2015

The government is notoriously bad at predictions involving specific jobs, said Rutgers University professor Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development.

“It’s a general direction,” Van Horn said. But, he said, the projections can be off in major ways.
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 3

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