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1 min readMar 31, 2016
A governing tenet of our new technology-based knowledge economy is that for individuals and the nation as a whole to be successful, we all must constantly upgrade our skills and master new subject areas. As too many of us have learned through hard reality, the days in which one can build a career with one skill set at one company are by-and-large behind us.
The encouraging news is that Americans appear to be adapting to this ‘new normal.’ More than 6-in-10 American workers say that they have ‘taken steps to upgrade their skills and knowledge in the last 12 months, according to a recently releases national poll conducted by Pew Research Center.
