{"id":25879,"date":"2024-04-10T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25879"},"modified":"2024-04-10T03:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T08:17:12","slug":"us-space-industry-facing-shortage-of-skilled-workers-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25879","title":{"rendered":"US Space Industry Facing Shortage of Skilled Workers \u2013 Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Harris&#8217; comments come amidst concern over deindustrialization after decades of neoliberal economic policy in the United States.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">COLORADO SPRINGS (Sputnik) &#8211; The US space industry lacks skilled technical workers, US Vice President Kamala Harris said during a video address to participants of the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Today our space industry is facing a shortage of skilled technical workers,&#8221; Harris said during the opening ceremony on Monday. &#8220;Thousands of good-paying technical jobs, many of which do not require a four-year degree, are waiting to be filled.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Harris recalled initiating three regional pilot programs to train more skilled technical workers one year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Space Symposium brings together thousands of the world&#8217;s space, military, civil, and government research industry leaders annually. This year&#8217;s event comes on the heels of a statement issued by the US-based Space Foundation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240408\/us-space-foundation-calls-yuri-gagarins-flight-cutting-edge-achievement-1117816391.html\">honoring the legacy<\/a>&nbsp;of Russian-born Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin was the first person to travel into space, flying aboard the Vostok spacecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>The Soviet Union also achieved the distinction of sending the first woman into space, the Russian Valentina Tereshkova, and the first person of African descent, the Afro-Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo M\u00e9ndez.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Harris&#8217; comments come amidst concern over deindustrialization after decades of neoliberal economic policy in the United States. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240225\/whos-laughing-now-chinas-shrewd-planning-paved-way-for-manufacturing-dominance-1116981963.html\">praised China&#8217;s investments<\/a>&nbsp;in industrial training, noting, &#8220;China put an enormous focus on manufacturing, in what you and I would call vocational kind of skills.&#8221; Shrewd planning has allowed the Asian power to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240318\/chinas-infrastructure-triumphs-prove-west-has-much-to-learn-from-beijing-1117395791.html\">dominate in the manufacturing<\/a>&nbsp;of everything from solar panels to infrastructure to electric vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240409\/us-space-industry-facing-shortage-of-skilled-workers--vice-president-1117818550.html\">Sputnikglobe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris&#8217; comments come amidst concern over deindustrialization after decades of neoliberal economic policy in the United States. COLORADO SPRINGS (Sputnik) &#8211; The US space industry lacks skilled technical workers, US Vice President Kamala Harris said during a video address to participants of the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. &#8220;Today our space industry is facing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[27748,10444,6094,2474,4973],"class_list":["post-25879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-aerospace","tag-america-2","tag-industrial","tag-shortage","tag-skilled-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25881,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25879\/revisions\/25881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}