Proud to join the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades. AI is driving a once-in-a-generation infrastructure buildout, and America needs the skilled workforce to build it. The Alliance’s new report finds that America will need to fill 1.7 million skilled trades openings each year through 2035. We look forward to working together to help more Americans build the skills this moment demands.
At Ford Motor Company, we care a lot about the Essential Economy, which is the workers who build, fix, and maintain the physical world around us. These skilled trades are the backbone of American manufacturing and we need solutions for closing the skills gap, and providing the education and resources that will power the productivity and growth of the Essential Economy. Across industries and public and private sectors, we all need to work together. That's why this summer, Larry Fink from BlackRock, Ruth Porat from Alphabet Inc. & Google, Linda Hubbard from Carhartt, and I launched the Alliance for America's Skilled Trades. Among other goals, we wanted to build a shared, trusted foundation of data on the state of skilled trades across America. So today, in partnership with Jobs for the Future (JFF) and The Burning Glass Institute, we’re officially publishing — The State of America's Skilled Trades: A National Report https://lnkd.in/d9gr_DsU The report examines the forces shaping supply and demand across occupations and regions, to show where workforce systems are working well, where they're under strain, and where focused action can make the biggest difference. Alongside the report, we're launching America's Skilled Trades Dashboard — a first-of-its-kind interactive tool that makes the data accessible in one place. It breaks down the data by occupation and state, making it easy to explore local labor market conditions, identify where the need is greatest, and compare progress across regions. The dashboard is available at https://lnkd.in/d9gr_DsU We also set out to grow this movement. Today, we're welcoming new partners - AT&T, Barton Malow, Blackstone, Cintas, DEWALT, Dycom Industries, Inc, The Hershey Company, ManpowerGroup, Meta, Microsoft, Milwaukee Tool, NVIDIA, Verizon and Waymo. Each has already stepped up individually. Now we're stepping up together. You can read more about today’s news on the Ford Accelerate site: https://lnkd.in/dHi6z5Qg #EssentialEconomy #FordAccelerate #Accelerate2026 #SkilledTrades Ford and the Essential Economy