The proposal divides the economy into 16 sectors with three types of skills standards frameworks, ranging from broad to specific. The first, known as core knowledge and skills, includes commonly acquired skills, and corresponds directly to Tucker's Tier One. The second, concentration knowledge and skills, covers a broad area within a specific sector, and corresponds to Tucker's Tier Two. The third framework, known as specialty knowledge and skills, targets particular jobs, and corresponds directly to Tucker's Tier Three. The strategy for targeting specific jobs is to be done through the labor market information system, which is a government job projection database.
Cashiers top the list as the largest growth occupation.
This idea is not still on the drawing board-one such restaurant has opened in New York. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts there will be many more new job openings for cashiers and janitors than for the top five fastest-growing occupations. Educating children for work skills based on government labor projections will result in a surplus of workers with-in the targeted industries, and will inherently limit the career choices of all Americans. In Oregon, fifth graders are participating in a job program for pay. As team members, they must do their part.