Looking Beyond the Pandemic: We Need a Change in Attitude

By Christy Stephens Martin, Ed.D Our nation is suffering from a labor shortage. Most especially, in the area of trades and unskilled labor. As a nation, we have encouraged our youth to go to college and seek the higher echelons of medicine, law, business, engineering, and architecture. We have encouraged them to seek a career that will ring of success and discouraged those fields that require labor, dirt and skilled knowledge. We have steered them away from manufacturing, once middle America’s bedrock of success. It is time to change the trend and point our young people in the direction of […]

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