Skilled factory workers hard to find

Kai Ryssdal: OK, wrap your head around this one if you can. A couple of weeks ago the OECD — that’s the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — issued a report that said more than half of American companies are having trouble finding enough skilled workers to hire. That’s with 8.2 percent unemployment. We’re [...] Read more »

Skills gap is the cause of USA employment problems

Charles Campbell, former senior vice-president of the Gulf Oil Corporation says in his letter to the editor (“Free trade destroying the American economy,” Aug 23 ) that the American economy is languishing because jobs meant for the American people are now in Bangalore, India, at Infosys, Wipro and Tata, and in China, at Foxconn, an electronics manufacturing giant. [...] Read more »