KARE 11: "Skills gap focus of Minnesota high tech employers"
Senator Franken recently toured the Minnetonka headquarters of DataCard, a high tech company that manufactures the machines that produce personalized credit cards, passports, and national identity cards for countries all around the world. DataCard requires a high skilled workforce and employees who have global perspective. Sen. Franken recently spoke to the Rochester Chamber of Commerce about the importance of bring education and manufactuers together to create a workforce with the skills necessary to make America competative.
"Almost 50 percent of manufacturers in this state are offering jobs and can't fill them, because people don't have the skills," Senator Al Franken told KARE Tuesday, citing surveys conducted by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, or DEED.
Read the whole story from KARE 11 here. You can see photos from Sen. Franken's visit to DataCard here.
