Jing Pan at Moneywise reports Ford CEO Jim Farley says there’s another side of the labor market that rarely makes the front page: High-paying jobs that are still out there - and going unfilled. “Those jobs are out there: Mechanics in a Ford dealership. As of this morning, we had (5,000) openings. A bay with a lift and tools and no one to work in it. ($120,000) a job a year, but it takes you five years to learn it. Take a diesel (engine) out - it takes a lot of skill. You need to know what you're doing.” So why aren’t workers flocking to these jobs? Farley points to a systemic shortage of training and education for Skilled Trades: “We have over a million openings in critical jobs - emergency services, trucking, Factory Workers, Plumbers, Electricians and Tradesmen. It's a very serious thing. We do not have Trade Schools. We are not investing in educating a next generation of people.”

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