Skills Alignment Framework: Six Policy Fixes for AI's Labor Market Disruption
robseamans · x · 2026-09-22
Economist Rob Seamans lays out a "Skills Alignment Framework" aimed at strengthening the feedback loop between employers, workers, and training providers to reduce information asymmetry about which skills are in demand.
Policy recommendations include: promoting AI-enabled skill training, scaling proven workforce training models, modernizing labor market adjustment programs, expanding wage insurance, addressing the tax code's preferential treatment of capital over labor, and improving national statistical infrastructure.
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