A report released in September 2003, by the Employment Policy Foundation (EPF) addresses the changing demographics of the American workforce over the next couple of decades and looses several straws into the wind that savvy learning professionals will want to catch. EPF, founded about 20 years ago, had its genesis as a practical solution to training needs, growing out of a consortium approach by several organizations to preparing Equal Employment Opportunity training materials. Employers will have to examine or create or at least accept, alternative pathways to the four-year college degree programs, especially for support positions. Employers will dip into varying labor pools to address worker shortages, employing greater numbers of disabled, non-English speaking and senior workers.