Just When You Thought Ivanka Trump Couldn't Get More Out Of Touch
Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and health insurance during the coronavirus pandemic but luckily Ivanka Trump has come to the rescue.
On Tuesday, the 38-year-old daughter of a wealthy man who has never once had to worry about finding the money to pay a bill ― proudly announced an ad campaign called “Find Something New,” which encourages people to get new jobs by learning new skills.
One suggestion: Become a wind turbine technician.
Other career-change options from the White House include aerospace engineering and operations technician, broadcast and sound engineering technician, computer support specialist, contact tracer or registered nurse, a job that requires a serious investment in education, something not easy to pull off in a pandemic when schools are shuttered and you might not have the resources to pay tuition. Or when you need work to keep your health insurance and can’t simply go back to school.
The campaign comes during a time of unprecedented economic crisis, with unemployment at 11.1%.
If you visit FindSomethingNew.org, the website created for this effort, you will find a very short list of jobs that are actually growing right now, according to the Labor Department.
We're in a moment of a moment of unprecedented economic crisis. The answer doesn’t lie in giving people information about community college programs.
Trump cooked up this plan through her role as co-chair of the White House’s American workforce policy advisory board, created by Donald Trump in 2018. The board’s other co-chair is commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, a multimillionaire who had his own “let them eat cake” moment during the federal shutdown last year when he expressed confusion over why workers who weren’t getting paid would need to use food pantries.
A bunch of CEOs are on the advisory board, including Tim Cook of Apple and Doug McMillon of Walmart.
Even for this White House, this is a new level of chutzpah. Certainly, it’s further evidence that...
