"Even when action [by business] could address a pressing business need, such as developing and tapping a skilled workforce, reality trails behind rhetoric," says Barbara Dyer, president and CEO of the Hitachi Foundation, which cosponsored the survey with BCCCC. "While 41% [of respondents] felt that companies should be held responsible for improving the education and skills in the communities where they operate, only 18% of businesses are offering job training to people in economically distressed communities," she notes.
In the BCCCC study, senior executives acknowledge that there's a growing distrust of large corporations in the U.S.