Skills gap for US manufacturing workers mostly a myth, paper says

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Despite the outcry from employers over the dearth of job-ready workers, three-quarters of US manufacturing plants show no sign of hiring difficulties for job vacancies, says new research from Andrew Weaver, a professor of labor and employment relations at Illinois.

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