1) Several articles discuss challenges in preparing young people for modern manufacturing jobs and the need to engage students in STEM learning to address America's skills crisis. 2) Other articles argue that infrastructure investment can create jobs and economic opportunity, and call on politicians to pass a long-term transportation bill to rebuild crumbling infrastructure. 3) Additional articles explore ways to attract more people, especially women and veterans, to manufacturing careers through skills training programs and partnerships between industry and educators.

1. Manufacturing Jobs
Closing The Skills Gap for New Manufacturing Workers
The challenge of preparing young people for jobs in modern high tech manufacturing is vital to them
and their future as citizens.
The Tangible Case for Infrastructure Investment
A who's who of international economy watchers are imploring Washington to do what it hasn't done
in nearly a decade: Pass a long-term, large-scale infrastructure plan. And while I wholeheartedly
agree with the sentiment, I think it could be presented in a less abstract fashion.
Taking the Skills Crisis Into Our Own Hands
It is critical that we take America's skills crisis into our own hands. We have the opportunity to
change course by engaging students in STEM learning and training the next generation workforce
that America will rely on. Early adopters of this strategy are reaping the benefits.
Five Tests Walmart Must Pass to Show Its 'Made in America' Street Cred
Let's look at the company's big, shiny $250 billion commitment to American-made products. Sound
like a big number? It is. But just like the endless aisles at your local Supercenter, everything is big
with Walmart.
Add Horsepower to America's Economic Engine: Pass a Real Transportation Bill

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California, Economy, Jobs, Legislation, Manufacturing Jobs, Transportation, Politics, Politics News,
Infrastructure, Senate, Public Transportation, Breaking Politics News, Transportation Bill,
Department of Transportation, Politics News
We can provide Americans with economic opportunity, create jobs, and expand our businesses
through a bipartisan multi-year transportation bill that rebuilds our crumbling infrastructure.
Taking a Cue from Forrest Gump to Help Veterans
While most veterans transition back to civilian life successfully, many still struggle. Securing steady
employment in a rewarding, lucrative and long-term career is an enormous part of that transition.
New Paths for Skills Training: Lessons From the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival
Corporate Executives regularly lament the lack of workers with the mid-level technical skills
required in the modern economy.
Manufacturing and the Skills Crisis
Closing the skills gap can be done by increasing the demand for workers, upgrading worker skills,
and increasing the supply of workers who are available. We simply must get our public schools

3. actively engaged in this quest.
Manufacturing Jobs for Women
Even when you tell them about the many high-paying jobs that are available in the manufacturing
industry, it is just not a career that they are considering. And of those few high school students who
might show an interest, fewer yet would be young women.
Jobs for Blue Collar Men
A strong reason to do infrastructure now is that interest rates are very low so financing is cheap and
trillions of private money is on the sidelines that could be borrowed inexpensively to finance
infrastructure expansion.
The Art of Y: Local Manufacturing
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Have you ever had an idea for a product--maybe even went as far as mocking it up--but then shied
away from it due to fears of difficult and costly overseas manufacturing?
7 Things Attracting the Youth to American Manufacturing

4. From procurement to design, building, delivery, and service, there's considerable opportunity -- not
to mention massive room for growth -- at some of the world's largest companies.
A Two-Year Career Path
Community colleges are uniquely suited to working with local businesses and other enterprises to
determine precisely what training and skills are needed in a local area.
A More Nuanced Measure of Growth
With its focus on production rather than consumption it will convey the vital message that it is the
production of goods and services that best determines our economic vitality, not their consumption.
Placing a Value on Veterans' Skills
Twenty years ago I played a veteran in Forrest Gump and over the years I have been privileged to
meet and support many real life Lt. Dans, active duty military, and veterans. They continue to inspire
me to encourage our nation to do everything it can to honor and support this generation of veterans.
What San Francisco Can Teach The World About Urban Manufacturing
The U.S. has added more than 550,000 new manufacturing jobs since January 2010. After decades of
outsourcing overseas, American manufacturing is exper...
WATCH: Filling The Skills Gap In Manufacturing: The Untapped Resource
Watch Live at 3:15pm-4:30pm EST. Econometric work at the Aspen Institute and elsewhere shows

5. that a main barrier to a strong resurgence in the manu...
President's Manufacturing Institutes Are a Good Idea: Now Let's See About the Other 90 Percent
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Manufacturing, Innovation, U.S. Manufacturing, Biotech, Science Innovation, Manufacturing Jobs,
Education News
From an educator's perspective, my experience is that on a small scale, a partnership which involves
industry, educators and innovative thinking can lead to great things.
Good News For Midwest Manufacturing
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago and the Detroit area stand to reap millions of dollars in federal grants and
private sector investment as part of White House...
The Paradox of Africa's Growth
Why is Africa's job growth so weak while its economic growth outlook is just fine, even robust? The
reasons are structural in nature and three-fold.
Obama's Emerging Network of Little Silicon Valleys -- For Manufacturing
Obama is right to push for these hubs, little spokes of scientific activity that are developing critical
technologies -- because we'll surely need them, as well as more people who understand them.
Trade Yes, But a Different Track
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Authority, Harry Reid Fast Track Trade, Cwa, Tpa, Harry Reid, Poll, Trans-Pacific Partnership,
Barack Obama, Small Business, Multinational Corporations, Global Economy, Wages, Jobs, Investor-
State, Manufacturing Jobs, Labor, Trade Deficit, Service Sector, Environment, Consumer Protection,
Unions, Fair Trade, Politics News

6. Voters overwhelmingly expect the TPP to be a good deal for large corporations at the expense of
small businesses:
Manufacturing Jobs Remain an Imperative -- And We Still Need Millions More
Right now, with the U.S. manufacturing sector employing less than 10 percent of the U.S. civilian
labor force, the sector is not even half the size it needs to be for our nation to again have a balanced,
high-growth economy.
The Union Needs Growth
Congress should embrace the positive growth elements of the president's address because our
nation needs more positive action, not more partisan bickering.
Manufacturing Continues On a Roll
There is a growing movement in our country to buy American. Major retailers are making a big
splash out of shifting to domestic suppliers. This movement was a long time in the making, but it is
real.
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