Axios - America needs technical workers — and supply isn't measuring up to demand. Older workers in the skilled trades are retiring. Not enough young people are training to take their jobs as construction workers, plumbers, and electricians. The construction industry faces a gap of a half million workers, according to Construction Dive. The application rate for technical jobs like plumber and electrician dropped by 49% between 2020 and 2022, NPR reports.
As America de-industrialized in the second half of the 20th century, education was reimagined to emphasize seeking four-year degrees, says Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. As a result, "we have a K-through-12 system that does create ... more high school graduates, but doesn’t do any job training," he says. Some 30 million jobs in the U.S. — paying an average of $55,000 per year — don't require a bachelor's degree, according to a Georgetown analysis.
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