My concern is this: There is an intersection of certain industries and a particular demographic where adapting/retraining will be either very difficult or impo

My concern is this: There is an intersection of certain industries and a particular demographic where adapting/retraining will be either very difficult or impossible. Case in point: - car factory town in Michigan - factory shuts down - nursing school opens in the town - they open a hospital - everyone thinks "Great! We can hire nurses from the school for the hospital" - hospital says "Yeah, but we want experienced nurses, not recent graduates" - people also say "So the factory workers can go to nursing school and get jobs somewhere else!" - nursing school says "Uhm, people with 30 years of working on an assembly line are not necessarily the type of folks who make good nurses..." Eventually, the town will adapt and market forces will balance out. But what about those folks who made rational decisions about their career path and that path suddenly gets wiped away?