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A <br /> -2- <br /> The very magnitude of the problem at the county level suggests that • <br /> training and retraining be regarded as only one response to the.problem. <br /> A second response is to-create and sustain more job opportunities focused <br /> on labor intensive products and, services, where neither robotics nor <br /> inexpensive overseas human resources can fulfill the need for specific <br /> products and services. <br /> The definition of the need, and an appropriate need response, is <br /> complicated by the polarization of opportunity seen in the work place. <br /> Professional opportunities requiring many years of education and special <br /> experience are growing in the private sector. Opportunities for minimal <br /> skills and earnings in various service functions are also growing. But <br /> for both "disadvantaged" and "dislocated" workers, the broad spectrum in <br /> the middle range is disappearing. This middle range of employment <br /> opportunities includes skilled manufacturing and labor trades, <br /> supervisory and middle management positions, para-professional and <br /> technical jobs. In most cases, there is no way they can hope to enter <br /> professional activities, and the alternatives at the other end of the <br /> scale provide marginal economic resources for survival. <br /> The need is for job opportunities in the middle range, for opportunities <br /> requiring human abilities and skills rather than extended specialized <br /> training, and for these opportunities to be developed more rapidly in the <br /> immediate future here and now in Hennepin County. • <br /> Business Plan: Hero 1/15/87:RSA:05 <br />