New release from the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education:
Making Skills Everyone’s Business: A Call to Transform Adult Learning in the United States <http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/AdultEd/making-skills.pdf> advances a set of actions that have real potential for upskilling many of Americans with low skills so that they can take advantage of new opportunities in the employment arena.
Read a blog post about why adult skills matter: http://www.ed.gov/blog/2015/02/the-importance-of-transforming-adult-learning/
See a video recorded message from Acting Assistant Secretary Johan E. Uvin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JMjBEhGiDc