President Trump To Sign Executive Order At Workforce Development Event Thursday, Pledging To Invest

Axios (7/15, Swan) reports that President Trump “will host a workforce development event at the White House, with business leaders, workers and cabinet secretaries” on Thursday. According to the White House, the President will sign an executive order and will be joined by US companies and associations signing “a pledge to the American Worker”...”to make significant new investments in reskilling their current and future workers.” White House Spokesperson Lindsey Walters says the initiative has been led by “Ivanka Trump and the Domestic Policy Council...in consultation with the private sector, government, and academia.” The issues matters, according to Axios, because “the US jobless rate is around the lowest it’s been this century, but millions of jobs remain unfilled. It’s partly because American workers lack the skills – many of them highly technical – needed to fill them.”