{"id":375,"date":"2022-01-01T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=375"},"modified":"2022-01-01T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T20:52:05","slug":"demand-for-bilingual-workers-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/01\/01\/demand-for-bilingual-workers-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for Bilingual Workers in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIn today\u2019s global economy, businesses require employees who can serve customers in a variety of languages,\u201d said John Feinblatt, chairman of New American Economy. \u201cThis research highlights the growing need to attract and promote a multilingual workforce among both foreign- and U.S.-born talent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamericaneconomy.org\/press-release\/demand-for-bilingual-workers-more-than-doubled-in-5-years-new-report-shows\/\">Demand for Bilingual Workers More than Doubled in 5 years, New Report Shows &#8211; New American Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because the U.S. public education system largely ignores language training, this implies a need to constantly import foreign workers &#8211; who grow up with multiple language skills.<\/p>\n<p>This also implies that U.S. permanent residents with multiple language skills are likely to be in demand, depending on the language and the work position.<\/p>\n<p>As noted here previously, nearly all students in the EU start learning English around age 6 to 7. And students in 20 of 29 countries there are required to study a 3rd language, typically starting about age 10. Research indicates it is best to start learning languages when young &#8211; but the U.S. typically does not start until age 15 or 16 and most students receive only 2 years of language study.<\/p>\n<p>A side effect of these trends is that workers with international experience, including those who are foreign born, or who have foreign born family (and hence first- or second-generation native language skills), are likely to be in significant demand in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for multi-lingual workers in the U.S. is increasing. Unfortunately, U.S. public education has among the worst language education of any developed nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-background","category-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}