Sentences with phrase «path to the middle class»

The Middle Skills Gap Initiative will work to change this on two fronts: first, by educating business, education, and policy leaders about the economic and social costs of failing to close this skills gap; and, second, by creating programs that increase connections between employers and educators with the purpose of closing the skills gap in order to improve America's competitive position and helping put millions of young Americans on path to the middle class.

In our new Education & Economic Mobility Program, we begin with the premise that post-secondary attainment is the surest path to the middle class.

Governor Cuomo is leading the national effort to create a clean energy economy that benefits our environment and establishes new paths to the middle class for working people.

«SUNY and CUNY have helped countless students and their families to secure their paths to the middle class.

But Stringer said the city should build homes like the first Mitchell - Lama and New York City Housing Authority complexes, which were conceived as a path to the middle class.

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

Even if we could double that proportion, there would still be a large majority of poor and working class kids needing another path to the middle class.

We're either going to get to a place where many more people are getting college degrees, and where we've got real training to put people on a path to the middle class if they don't get a college degree, or we're going to have massive challenges in this country.

«The [FHA] served as a stabilizing force during [the] crisis by providing access to mortgage credit for underserved borrowers, and preserving a path to the middle class that can be passed on from one generation to another.»