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(October 2011) posted on Mon Oct 10, 2011

With the technologies advancing, significant employment opportunties loom

By Dr. M. Nisa Khan

 

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“The official number of unemployed excludes certain jobless groups, such as those marginally attached to the workforce and discouraged workers. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has published six, monthly, alternative measures of labor underutilization for the United States as a whole, to account for these groups since the 1990s. These six measures, known as U-1 through U-6, are based on data from the CPS household survey and are shown in BLS tables.”
-- The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

The U.S. has conspicuously led the globe in technology, education and human rights over the last century, but, presently, the country is enormously challenged by unruly economic and market conditions that adversely affect the national economy in terms of job creation, energy, innovation and infrastructure reconstruction.
This increasingly unpredictable economy has mostly impaired small businesses and citizens. The government and private sectors thus far have done little about the fundamental challenges, that, if surmounted, could pull the nation back together.
Politics aside, these challenges require real solutions, ones that only evolve from understanding the nations’ current weaknesses in manufacturing, education and training -- and the hands-on action needed to compile the man- and machine-power to close these gaps.
Such action, by design, could certainly create prosperity.
However, because this phenomenon is too broad to cover in these pages, I’ll focus on lighting technologies, LEDs in particular, in the framework of the signage and display industries.