Category: Economics (Page 1 of 7)

America is going to get back to manufacturing

High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers

High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers

If America is going to get back to manufacturing, companies will need to get involved to make sure that there are trained people to hire.  There will need to be more of this.

PHILADELPHIA—Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.

Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire. They have increasingly begun courting high-school students like Rios—a hiring strategy they say is likely to become even more crucial in the coming years.

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Arctic Analysis

IM:  The Arctic Gambit

I am always going to click on an article that sounds like the name of a Tom Clancy novel.  This article opens with a photo of a submarine conning tower jutting through the ice.  There are a few other nice photos and what seems to be a deep analysis of the geopolitics of the Arctic.

I don’t know anything about the organization, IM, that posted the article, but it seems balanced and informative.  I only read a bit of it, was in over my head, and Sparky wants to go outside.

Let me know if it’s worth reading.

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