Manufacturers group kicks off campaign to close the industry’s skills gap – By Alex Gangitano (The Hill) / Feb 12 2020
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) unveiled a new campaign to close the growing skills gap in the manufacturing industry, the group first told The Hill.
NAM and The Manufacturing Institute, which is its workforce and education partner, launched the “Creators Wanted” campaign in order to showcase modern manufacturing.
The goal of the campaign is to reduce the US skills gap by 600,000 and expand the number of students enrolled in technical and vocational schools or re-skilling programs by 25 percent by 2025.
NAM has over $12 million in initial sponsorships from manufacturing companies such as Honda, Toyota, Microsoft, Stanley Black & Decker, Boeing, Walmart, Merck, Salesforce, Volvo, Nestle, Exxon, Caterpillar, and Lockheed Martin, among others.
NAM will officially kick off the campaign on Wednesday to mark the 125th anniversary of the group. It will also award Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter and a White House adviser, the inaugural Alexander Hamilton Award for supporting manufacturing.
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