It isn’t exactly news—manufacturing production lines are heading back to the States en masse, but there aren’t enough trained techs ready to staff them. Baby Boomers—our proverbial Old Guard—are retiring, leaving unfilled jobs for the unskilled—and some say uninterested—masses.
President Obama has launched a multimillion-dollar endeavor to address this through developing apprenticeships and job-training programs, and as such, manufacturing organizations, schools and businesses across the country are joining arms to try to shrink this skills gap.