People that are back in college now are smart, getting more skills for more trades in the workforce. Employers in the upcoming years will be looking for employees with multiple skills, to get more bang for their buck. Employers in some states will pay higher taxes for employees.
People coming out of college now, and in the workforce, are hit with two big problems for the upcoming years: paying back loans or other unemployment benefits. If a person can get a tax break while paying this back it will help.
If the government would take a good look at what needs to be done, they would stop putting so much money in to non stimulating programs and put it in to getting people back to work. In the 20's and 30's people were not working, the government put them back to work with a great program: CCC. If the government of today would look closer at a program like this, I feel it would work.
Looking at which trades in the workforce are suffering- it is skilled trades, but skilled trades are what makes the USA grow. I've looked at a lot of projects out here in the USA that need to be done, but the funding is not here. Nor is the the workforce. ================================================== "Paying back loans or other unemployment benefits" does not make sense to me- no one pays back unemployment benefits. The CCC undoubtedly did a lot of good, but it contributed greatly to the country's deficit. Unease about the high deficit caused Congress to pull back from programs like these and in 1937, the U.S. was hit with the economy getting worse, again. The economic situation is indeed eerily similar, but the college tax credit is unlike any program that existed during the Great Depression.
