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TopicAdult Education
ContentThe average adult in the modern workplace can expect to change jobs at least 3-5 times within his/her productive life span. Depending on career choice, some as often as every five years. Why can't the tax savings benefits of a college/vocational savings education account not be utilized for retraining of adult workers for themselves? Incentives for people to save for their own vocational retraining, licensure and professional certification continuing education and educational credential upgrades would go a long way toward remediating many problems older workers experience with job changes relevant to a population that gets little or no support from college/vocational school grant or loan programs. The economy is helped, people are allowed to maintain their dignity and remain gainfully employed with far more mobility between careers, tax revenues are maintained through increased continuity of employment; everybody wins...
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