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Learning and Work Institute, 2021
Basic skills -- including literacy, numeracy, ESOL and digital skills -- are key to support adults' life chances and the need to invest in them is increasing. Investing in higher level and technical skills is important for economic recovery and future prosperity. But a sound base of basic skills are both essential in their own right and provide…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Adult Literacy, Numeracy
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Danziger, Sheldon; Ratner, David – Future of Children, 2010
According to Sheldon Danziger and David Ratner, changes in the labor market over the past thirty-five years, such as labor-saving technological changes, increased globalization, declining unionization, and the failure of the minimum wage to keep up with inflation, have made it more difficult for young adults to attain the economic stability and…
Descriptors: Independent Living, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Labor Market