Doing Something About Manufacturing

The National Association of Manufacturing (NAM) is actually doing something beyond lobbying.  You may recall in the foofarah about Apple, an Apple executive attributed the massive offshoring of manufacturing to "The U.S. has stopped producing people with the skills we need." Well, the NAM is doing something about that.

Together with 113 colleges, the NAM has established a program whereby students can earn a "portable skills certificate" which is recognized nationally.  A worker trained in northern California could land an aerospace manufacturing job in Missouri, an industrial job in Illinois or work in a factory in the Carolinas.

Young workers are taking to the program.  85,000 received a certificate in 2011.