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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Mon Sep 10, 2012, 07:10 PM Sep 2012

Manufacturing jobs boom is for real

President Obama last week promised a boom in manufacturing and 1 million new jobs if he is reelected.

But is the boom for real? For high-paying, skilled manufacturing jobs, it just might be.

The number of job openings for skilled factory workers has increased 38% since 2005, according to numbers from the Conference Board that measure labor demand across industries.

More strikingly, the sharpest increase in postings for skilled workers – 152% – has occurred in the last three or so years.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/10/smallbusiness/manufacturing-jobs/index.html

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Manufacturing jobs boom is for real (Original Post) Playinghardball Sep 2012 OP

Obama knows what a manufacturing job is; Shrub thought assembling burgers was manufacturing. freshwest Sep 2012 #1

We're booming, alright. But people won't like the reason why. SolutionisSolidarity Sep 2012 #2

freshwest

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1. Obama knows what a manufacturing job is; Shrub thought assembling burgers was manufacturing.

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Mon Sep 10, 2012, 07:42 PM

Sep 2012

SolutionisSolidarity

(606 posts)

2. We're booming, alright. But people won't like the reason why.

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Tue Sep 11, 2012, 12:28 AM

Sep 2012

It's fracking. We have such a glut of cheap natural gas right now that we're paying some of the lowest energy costs in the world. Many industrial processes are highly energy intensive, and for the first time in decades those will be cheaper to do here than abroad. I hope fears over ground water contamination are exaggerated, as I can't see many politicians being willing to move against fracking given the impact it's having on our greater economy. The silver lining for the environment is that natural gas is killing the coal industry.

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