
Presenting 'TED Radio Hour': Work, Play, Rest
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How Do We Pay for It?
We've turned a long held idea on its head. We can train up entire cohorts or generation of junior level and apprentice level technologists trained directly to their systems, ready to be hired on day one. The us. Spends a trillion dollars skilling up a work force for this country. We apply for applications of that same kind of money and use it to pay people to learn. And we can do this. It's worked in fresno. It's working in baker'sfield and toledo, ohio, and it can work in underestimated cities all over the world. These are folks leaving restaurant retail factory and field labor, earning on average less than 20 thousand dollars a year
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