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Mike Rowe on America’s great tradesperson shortage: ‘I don’t care what your politics are. Math doesn’t care, either’

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Nela Richardson, chief economist at Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP), during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Jackson Hole economic symposium in Moran, Wyoming, US, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023.
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“It’s a manufacturing hiring spree that is limited by worker sentiment and preferences about timing of work, not just working in those fields as well,” Dr. Nela Richardson told Fortune.

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