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Employers can’t find enough workers with these skills

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‘Maker skills’ are the engine of the global economy.  These core practical abilities - in construction, operation and resources handling - account for almost half of employment worldwide.  But demand is running way ahead of supply, which means in many regions there’s a shortage of people with these skills. In the US, people with maker skills are doing five times as much overtime as other workers, on average.

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