The Jobs Are There. Where Is the Training?
The manufacturing workforce skills shortage is growing as apprenticeships and training are declining. There is no evidence that most of America’s Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are investing in long-term, high-skill training that would help the skilled worker crisis in America.
A 2018 study by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute (MI) predicted that U.S. manufacturing would have 2.1 million unfilled jobs by 2030. In June 2022, the Department of Labor (DOL) Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) showed 793,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs. I tried to find out how many of these unfilled jobs are skilled versus unskilled, but nobody I talked to at the DOL had any idea. In fact, ...
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