{"id":7972,"date":"2010-09-13T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T19:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2010-09-13T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T19:41:33","slug":"teaching-the-unemployed-to-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/teaching-the-unemployed-to-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching The Unemployed To Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri government program teaches the unemployed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ky3.com\/news\/ky3-workreadymissouri-09132010,0,1001316.story\" target=\"_blank\">valuable skills<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Miklos, technology is a bit of a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cell phones are a new thing,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and I&#8217;ve just recently found out how to send pictures on my cell phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He knows he&#8217;s at a disadvantage in today&#8217;s workplace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The young kids today, they get taught that in school.  They&#8217;re a whiz at it. You see them with both hands and all ten fingers [texting].&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Work Ready Missouri program and the Taney County auditor, he is getting up to speed. The program teaches new skills for new careers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is that seriously going to land him a new job?<\/p>\n<p>No, but it&#8217;s what the community organizers and liberal arts majors that the program employs know how to teach, so that&#8217;s what the program participant learns.<\/p>\n<p>And when the program fails, you want to know why it will fail?  <em>Because they didn&#8217;t have enough money.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri government program teaches the unemployed valuable skills: For Miklos, technology is a bit of a mystery. &#8220;Cell phones are a new thing,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and I&#8217;ve just recently found out how to send pictures on my cell phone.&#8221; He knows he&#8217;s at a disadvantage in today&#8217;s workplace. &#8220;The young kids today, they get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7974,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}