In the past, when those of us in health and human services talked about workforce issues, we were likely advocating for more jobs, higher pay, and better training for those without work.
Today there s a new wrinkle.
More of us are beginning to wonder where our own workforce is going to come from. In the past, we were lucky. There were more workers than jobs. While we paid less than for-profit and government employers, we could always depend on an available pool of people anxious for work. We were, to our credit, the entry point for many coming out of poverty or moving through disabilities into the workplace.