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Bill Clinton: “Let me--one last thing. He is really the typical American of the future. The average person will change work seven times…”

On the recordOctober 3, 1993
Let me--one last thing. He is really the typical American of the future. The average person will change work seven times in a lifetime now, sometimes for the same employer, sometimes for a different employer. So we simply have to establish a lifetime learning system so that people feel the same obligation to retrain the 55-year- old worker that they do the 25-year-old worker. If we don't do it, we'll never get our economy straightened out, because you can't keep the same kind of work; the nature of work is changing too fast. [Mr. Moyer introduced a representative of the Mexican American Grocers Association who requested help to expand the association's training program.]
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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