Skills2Compete is a non-partisan campaign to ensure our workforce has skills needed to meet business demand, foster innovation, and grow broadly shared prosperity. We encourage America to address U.S. competitiveness in a way that includes the vast majority of Americas future workers—that is, adults already in the workforce—and the largest portion of jobs in the U.S. economy—that is, jobs in the middle of the skilled labor market which require some training past high school, but not a four-year degree.

The Skills2Compete-Oregon state campaign released a new report in March 2009--Oregon's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs--showing that despite the loss of thousands of jobs in the past several months, middle-skill jobs make up the largest portion of Oregon's jobs and will continue to grow in the coming decade. Watch as campaign advisors testify before the Oregon House Committee on Business and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Development that the best way to meet the demand for these jobs in the middle is to guarantee access to the equivalent of at least two years of education or training past high school.