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  • Training programs promise good jobs without college degrees. Can they deliver?

    Lonnie Shekhtman

    August 16, 2016 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    Many businesses are in need of technical-skilled laborers, however, such training has decreased in the last 30 years. A few non-profits are working with employers in the region to provide "skill-based" training for free. Filling these job gaps is beneficial to companies, individuals who have not obtained a college degree, and the U.S. economy.

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  • How Vermont changed the national GMO-labeling debate

    Lonnie Shekhtman

    July 08, 2016 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, Vermont

    Vermont's passage of a law requiring food that is genetically modified to be labeled spurred action at the national level to create one standard, rather than a patchwork of state laws, that offers food companies several ways to label foods with GMOs. The national bill did eventually pass, but as this piece illustrates, no one seems very happy about it. Environmentalists feel it leaves large loopholes and while the food industry likes one standard, it does not like the stigma the GMO label confers.

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