Higher wages cure labor shortages

Corporate and political leadership continue to complain about the inability to find workers in the skilled trades/mid-skill jobs. Their solution is to go back to tracking kids––almost certainly others, not theirs––into vocational programs. One problem: if there are labor shortages,…

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Manufacturing in decline

Two  terrific articles on the declining role of manufacturing in the American economy. One from Bloomberg Businssweek entitled Factory Jobs Are Gone. Get Over It. The other a Steve Rattner column for the New York Times entitled The Myth of Industrial Rebound.…

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Student loans: a good investment

Conventional wisdom is that college educated Millennials are being crushed by student loans. A burden that will weigh them down economically for a lifetime. Its nonsense. Using data from The Ladders.com, Business Insider demonstrates the value of a four year…

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Worth reading

While I have been using this post to explore the findings in our new report, I have stockpiled lots of articles that I wanted to write about. Rather than wait until I get to them here is a list of…

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Andy Grove on Manufacturing

Bloomberg Business Week published an important commentary from legendary former Intel CEO Andy Grove. They also published a response by Duke's Vivek Wadhwa. Both are worth reading and debating. The case Grove makes is so important, my next few posts will be…

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