Skills gap: Why can't NJ employers find workers they need?

August 11, 2017

“As a society we are failing a lot of these folks by letting them fend for themselves,” said Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

Van Horn was among the experts speaking Tuesday in New Brunswick at a town hall sponsored by the Heldrich Center and WorkingNation, a Los Angeles-based group calling attention to the disruption of the digital age.

Asbury Park Press.com, August 11, 2017

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