A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

We are short somewhere between 290,000 and 350,000 IT workers, but no one knows for sure. It looks like it's both a shortage of people and a mismatch of skills in the marketplace that produce vacancies. But it doesn't matter what the cause is if you can't fill jobs that support income and revenue for your company -- the effect is there.

The real difficulty will be creating 1,900 good jobs for workers with high school diplomas ? full-time jobs that pay enough to raise a family, that include health and pension benefits, and that have paid sick leave and vacations. But how to do this in a global economy is a huge challenge that every country in the world is grappling with.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

They are a tremendous resource.