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August 16, 2017

Low-tech workers can't fill high-tech jobs

  • American manufacturers have added nearly a million jobs in the past seven years, but more factory jobs now demand education, technical know-how or specialized skills.
    • By DAN SEWELL and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
    Associated Press Writers

    NORWOOD, Ohio — Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company's plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as “a GREAT employee.”

    But it's all nostalgia.


     
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