The most effective way to reduce poverty: Give educational opportunities, teach employable skills, and create more jobs.

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Now, as globalisation confronts each country's workers with a wider range of competitors, Labour chants the mantra of employable skills.

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It is time for women to stand up to seize this moment, as sure to wreak havoc with prevailing norms as the Second Wave feminism that inspired me in the 1960s to morph from real West Texas housewife (I mean really real -- three kids by age 20 and no employable skills) to college student to volunteer women's activist to a full-out career.

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Educators must make sure that students are graduating with both a degree and skills that make them employable, he argues.

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Skills that were once highly employable are now gone.

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By that he means that when the economy is in a prolonged slump, businesses stop investing in increasing their production, and may even scrap existing capacity, while the out-of-work lose skills and motivation, becoming less employable.

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It also has, among these countries, by far, the largest pool of employable people those with the necessary language and technical skills.

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