61,000 Retail Jobs Lost in 1 st Q, 2017

[GotHereQuickAsICould]

Originally Posted by HockeyMac18

Many of the positions in these fields require education of some sort to excel and get above entry-level positions. Maybe it's at a local college, or its offered through their union. But they still need to have that educational background to succeed in their field. And that content is often very STEM-focused. Some positions are filled primarily by people that have the expertise in the STEM-heavy areas.

I know some people my age (early 30's) working their way up in the trades (HVAC, machinist, electricians, and plumbing in these examples), and all of them have had to take some sort of coursework.

The paths to these jobs may not be traditional (HS -> 4 yr college -> job), but they still require this kind of STEM knowledge. And it's not all learned on the job.

Exactly.

[GotHereQuickAsICould]

Originally Posted by middle-aged mom

US manufacturers have been making unprecedented investments in custom industrial robotics over the past 5 years. A late 2015 survey of 500 global manufacturing CEOs by Deloitt &Touche concluded the US is positioning to reclaim the top spot for global manufacturing by 2020 based on the investments in custom industrial robotics designed to be more productive that the cheapest sources of labor.

Assuming this projection is realized, it did not dependent on who was elected in 2016.

We are not talking about our daddy's factories of the past that used to employ the masses under collective bargaining agreements.

Re-shoring has been picking up steam over the last several years.

"Sixty thousand manufacturing jobs were added in the U.S. in 2014, versus 12,000 in 2003, either through so-called reshoring, in which American companies bring jobs back to the U.S., or foreign direct investment, in which foreign companies move production to the U.S., according to a study from the Reshoring Initiative. In contrast, as many as 50,000 jobs were “offshored” last year, a decline from about 150,000 in 2003."

Record number of manufacturing jobs returning to America - MarketWatch

[man4857]

Originally Posted by whogo

Keep mocking blue collar workers. That is why ya keep losing elections.

Then don't make stupid decisions. It's pretty simple.