technological innovation

If you think about the simple Maslow hierarchy, we understand that there are base-level needs. In many cases, we have individuals who may be homeless, and maybe youth who are justice-involved, or adults who are justice-involved. They may have some sort of real barrier that's disallowing them from moving to the next stage in life… towards actualizing their goals.
And so, …to get people to that self-actualization of broadened economic prosperity is help individuals overcome those barriers. Wherever those barriers are, we're trying to identify those upfront. Whether it's a skills gap barrier. Whether it's things like childcare, access to transportation. It's overcoming maybe generational poverty. Whatever might keep individuals from moving to that next level. …We want to focus on removing the barriers with the goal of really helping all Missourians who want to go to work to be able to go to work and not have anything that's in their way.
The second thing… We want to keep [people] working in Missouri. How do we make our workforce more productive in Missouri, more what I call resilient, in Missouri? What that means is – with acceleration of technology, and the jobs, roles and tasks changing so rapidly – we need to make sure that individuals have the skill set and have access to gaining the new skills that are needed to compete and succeed in today's marketplace.
That means reinvesting in our workers, our incumbent workers, the people who maybe [earned] that degree or that certification, a number of years ago. They're quite successful, but they can't grow. They can't move on to what's next. Or maybe now they're going to be vulnerable when the next wave of technological innovation occurs. And so, we need to be investing to create a more productive workforce and one that's more dynamic and one that can be more flexible… to achieve that goal of resilience.

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