Washington Post, Sunday,Oct.19, 2008 Page B7

Peter B. Edelman,law professor at Georgetown University,Mark H. Greenberg and Harry Holzer,professors at Georgetown and directors of Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy published "A Safety Net for the least fortunate" Such article has proper insights with analytical vision. I have reason to believe that such thinking is dedicated to the next new President of the United States and Congress in 2009 for taking action for Americans.

As policymakers struggle to respond to the global financial meltdown, most analysts suggest that our economy is entering a fairly serious and lengthy recession,with the highest unemployment rates in a generation. If true, this would inflict economic pain on most Americans - but the most severe effects will be felt by disadvantaged adult, youths and their families. Such urgent problems must be solved as sine qua non for a democratic American society apropos of desideratum in the days to come.

Congress should improve the safety net so that it catches more jobless workers and their families. Career and technical education options that emphasize work experience as well as training can be scaled up. We should make sure that some jobs and funding for apprenticeships go to disadvantaged youth as dire need arises.

I wish to mention the following works to elaborate the above rationale: -

1. The Future of Community Colleges. Published by the Congressional Record,July 18, 1974. Quoted by Richard T. Gill of Harvard in his textbooks published in 1975,l978.
2. Keys for Economic Understanding(re apprenticeships). www.ask.com or www.Amazon.com for references.
3. Keys to Economic Understanding.(apropos of vocational education) Ditto.
4. Work and Study Cycle Theory. (enhancing productivity for economic growth) Listed at the Library of Congress.www.loc.gov

Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao,a graduate of Georgetown University Graduate School,(Class of 1950). I wish to share my views to readers at www.Sino-American Economics and to dovetail the recommendations of three scholars at Georgetown with the same reasoning as published above from my vision in the 20th century to the 21st century with intellectual satisfaction as a former Fulbright Senior Scholar 1989-1990. Thank you for sharing my thought.

Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2.40 p.m.