Why aren't more people taking on the trades?

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  NPR.

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  This is the indicator for planet money.

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  I'm Adrian Ma.

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  And I'm Darian woods.

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  And it is jobs Friday.

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  It's that time of the month when we take the temperature of the american jobs market and we see how the economy is working for everyday people.

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  In August, 142,000 jobs were added to the us economy.

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  That's a little on the soft side, especially given that previous month's jobs numbers were revised down.

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  There were some bright spots though.

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  Unemployment ticked down slightly to 4.2%, 34,000 new construction jobs were created.

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  And while manufacturing jobs were down last month, long term the trades will be.

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  Needed and thats why today were going to focus on manufacturing jobs.

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  According to a recent report by the consulting firm Deloitte, the US manufacturing industry could need as many as 3.8 million new employees over the next decade.

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  And yet about half those jobs could go unfilled.

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  So its a bit of a problem in need of some kind of solution.

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  And when Darnell Epps learnt about this projected labour shortage, his mind started racing.

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  It was, you know, kind of baffling to me.

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  I learned that these jobs were very good paying jobs.

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  I couldn't, you know, understand why there was this labor shortage and this inability to find talent when there were so many people that were desperately in search of middle class careers.

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  Darnell decided he wanted somehow to help bridge that gap.

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