Sherrill G. Stevens: What about low-tech workers?

Regarding the April 15 Point of View “High-tech talent and immigration reform”: Brandon Kelly made a good case for supporting STEM fields job creation.

What concerns me is that I see so little being done about the residents who were able with low-tech skills and training in assembly line textile and furniture jobs to support their families, own homes and sometimes advance.

With the loss of these low-tech manufacturing jobs, a significant portion of our residents with less skill, training, technical ability or aspiration are increasingly being left out in the cold.

Our nation desperately needs a major commitment to systemic development of job creation that will enable the “high-tech unusables” to be gainfully employed. We need them to be contributors to our economy.

It seems to me that this is the only way we can change the arc of our developing dependency society.

This story was originally published April 20, 2015 at 6:36 PM with the headline "Sherrill G. Stevens: What about low-tech workers?."