The 2010 Meltdown: Solving the Impending Jobs Crisis

Ed Gordon marshals a vast amount of data to illustrate how various trends are converging to create a labor vacuum--with potentially disastrous consequences for economic competitiveness and individual opportunity. He sounds a wake-up call to business leaders, policymakers, educators, and concerned citizens, employees, and parents--anyone with a stake in our economic future. Moreover, he highlights innovative initiatives in training, education, and community development in the United States and around the world that can serve as models for positive action. Ultimately, The 2010 Meltdown is an optimistic book about social change, setting an agenda for reforms in education, policy, and business investment that will promote economic freedom, renewal, and prosperity.

Edward E. Gordon is president of Imperial Consulting Corporation in Chicago and Palm Desert, California. He is an internationally recognized expert on the future of labor market development and many education reform issues, applying a broad multidisciplinary approach to today's complex business and socioeconomic problems. During his over thirty years of consulting experience, he has assisted a wide variety of clients— from Fortune 500 corporations to universities, school systems, and trade/professional organizations—and has taught at DePaul, Loyola, and Northwestern Universities in the Chicago area. He is the author of sixteen books, includingFutureWork (Praeger, 1994), Skill Wars (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000), andLiteracy in America (Praeger, 2002), and has been quoted in or written over 200 articles in newspapers, popular magazines, business publications, and education journals.