“We’re lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back, to educate them for jobs that no longer exist. We have become ‘profoundly disconnected’.” – Mike Rowe (“Dirty Jobs”) Mike Rowe announced the mikeroweWORKS Foundation Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Education Scholarship Fund for those looking to explore a career in […]
The mikeroweWORKS Foundation, in partnership with SkillsUSA, is proud to offer a scholarship opportunity for SkillsUSA members who have competed and placed first in their state association competition. The scholarship is to provide support for SkillsUSA state contest winners who have insufficient personal, chapter, school or community resources to participate at the 2013 National SkillsUSA Championships. […]
Google is relying on a little social networking to put its Internet-connected glasses on the heads of more people. The expanded sales of the device known as Google Glass (which works like a smartphone except that it’s worn on the head like a pair of spectacles – the device includes a speaker, a hand-free camera and […]
In a press release, the National Association of Manufacturers (10/29) announced that former Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and George Allen (R-VA) will co-chair the Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative, an effort aimed at examining and highlighting the competitiveness challenges facing manufacturers. Among the first challenges Sens. Lincoln and Allen will take on are the impact of unnecessarily […]
Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage. The city of Portland in Oregon was named after a coin toss in 1844. Heads for Portland and tails for Boston.
On this date in 1929, a Tuesday, more than 16 million shares were sold on the New York Stock market in a financial collapse that left ruin and panic in its wake. The date has been known ever since as Black Tuesday. As a result the United States and the rest of the world sank […]
In an op-ed in Roll Call (10/29) Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) writes that Congress needs to refocus on the manufacturing sector. Today, Sen. Coons writes that more than 20 Senators are launching a new effort called Manufacturing Jobs for America. MJA features more than 40 measures “to spur job creation in manufacturing and lay the […]
The Board of Directors of Acimall, the Italian woodworking machinery and tools manufacturers’ association, unanimously accepted the request by Biesse spa to re-join the association. This is a significant event for the world of woodworking technology, where Biesse is definitely one of the most renowned organizations worldwide; it’s a strong signal that shows everybody’s determination […]
Facebook provides 3,000-square-foot woodshop for the use of employees at the company’s Menlo Park campus. Situated on Facebook’s sprawling campus in Menlo Park, Calif., is a beautifully designed facility where social media meets sawdust. Known simply as the Wood Shop at Menlo Park Campus (MPK), the 3,000-square-foot, professionally outfitted shop was designed to inspire employees […]
Global shifts in costs, processes and consumer purchasing habits put the U.S. in a position to revitalizing its manufacturing sector and enhance businesses and industry at home. The only thing missing is enough skilled workers to maintain the momentum. The average U.S. manufacturing worker is in their late 40s or early 50s, so many will […]
