Corporate America is slowly waking up to a crisis facing America’s blue-collar workforce: There aren’t enough skilled workers to fill the jobs already available—and the gap is expected to widen.
About 1.7 million skilled-trades job openings are projected each year through 2035 as employers contend with both new demand, including the rapid build-out of data center infrastructure, and an aging workforce. But current training pipelines are producing just 55% of the skilled workers needed to fill those jobs.
