Unemployed Adults Rejected Over Lacking Math Skills - 8 News NOW
Unemployed Adults Rejected Over Lacking Math Skills  Posted:
Updated:  LAS VEGAS -- Hiring managers holding job fairs are
finding a majority of the applicants for jobs involving handling
money don't have basic math skills. Adult education programs
attempt to close the gap, but not everybody can find help.
There are plenty of free classes for people still working to get
their high school diploma. But unemployed people who already
have their diploma must either pay hundreds of dollars for
college classes or re-learn these career math skills on their
own.  At a recent restaurant job fair at the Venetian, hiring
managers asked cashier applicants what was 17 percent of 100. A
majority of the cashier applicants failed to correctly answer
this basic math question.  "A cashier, counter position where
the vast majority of their job is handling money, those people
probably would not move on. They would have got a courtesy
interview. They likely did not