Manufacturers are hiring, but there’s no one to fill the jobs

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The manufacturing sector is facing a serious worker shortage.  The U.S. added 23,000 jobs in manufacturing in January, but there were 601,000 open positions in the industry in December, a three-month high, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.  At the root of the problem is that companies relying on blue collar workers are losing

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