Skills Gap Plagues U.S. Manufacturing Industry

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Dear Jennifer,
Part of the problem with the U.S. economy is executives thinking with their little heads instead of their big heads when hiring for companionship instead of talent.

Paul Casella of MA 10:42AM July 18, 2012

When manufacturing executives and political leaders begin to realize that the manufacturing sector is still the backbone of the American economy, the sooner the citizens will all be economically improved. An economy that does not produce goods and relies just on services to spur growth is not an equation for success.
Manufacturing operations will always be prone to move around the globe. When this happens, new facilities are built, capital equipment is purchased and jobs are created. That is why so many countries welcome with open arms a company who wants to locate within their national borders. But manufacturing executives and political leaders must take a long hard look at the havoc and destruction that is being created on the personal lives of people and their families, as well as the damage and impact on the overall financial system.

Thomas J. Sowell of MA 1:23PM May 25, 2012

This gap is the intentional result of tax policies to rewarding the offshoring American industry and underfunding education in the US - two main Republican goals.
Its cheap to train a workforce for manufacturing here and to support American manufacturing industries. The kind of training for manufacturing is very inexpensive, unless we are unwilling got invest in this country anymore. Supporting technical education is part of the infrastructure to support an economy. If we are unwilling to support an economy here, the results are the slash and burn recession the GOP is seeking. Industry needs economic patriotism to make sure we have the best workforce and infrastructure for manufacturing, which is exactly opposite of the Republican agenda to undermine our workforce and our education. As long as we are unwilling to tax corporations of uber-rich (both who profit handsomely from the same counterproductive tax agendas), we won't be able to afford th have an economy here anymore. Welcome to the new feudalism that Hermaine Cain and Koch AFP party wants to install in this country.

Jill of TN 2:25PM October 26, 2011

everyone needs to quit complaining and TRAIN the workforce here the way they do when they go to China and elsewhere!!!!!!!!!!

DRD of NC 3:29PM October 25, 2011

Overall, the study found that about 5 percent of current jobs, or up to 600,000 jobs, remain unfilled due to a lack of qualified candidates. ......
That is the biggest ever lay I have read for the last several years. Who are those so qualified guys, for whom for example the job opening is in Californian but candidates from Arizona, are not considered, because they are "Out of Country"..... or the same "Qualified" are offering 30-40% lower salary to candidate because now is recession and they are in a "Cost Saving mode"..... Ben, you should be ashamed to write such things......

Ivan IVANOV of AZ 11:59AM October 24, 2011

So these companies can't afford to train workers to fill those positions? Do they expect people with 20 years of experience in a job that has never existed before to just magically appear?

Jimmy the Geek of OH 11:14AM October 24, 2011