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With only 16% of high school students choosing to pursue a skilled trade as a career, the lack of qualified workers to fill open job positions—including plumbers, electricians, carpenters, roofers and welders—has put a strain on the industry. In an …

Students attending STIHL Inc.’s Manufacturing Technology Summer Camp, held in July at the company’s headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia, had a surprise visitor. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross showed up to promote the White House’s Pledge to America’s Workers …