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America’s skilled labor shortage didn’t happen overnight—and it isn’t simply the result of young people choosing college over the trades. When manufacturing moved overseas, we lost jobs, but we also disrupted the ecosystems that passed skill, experience and judgment from one generation to the next. Decades later, as America works to bring manufacturing back, we’re discovering that we don’t just have a skilled labor shortage. We have a skilled knowledge shortage.

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