Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Not Your Standard Heavy Metal Tour

This event promotes Wisconsin's Manufacturing Month.


State leaders encourage students to consider manufacturing jobs. (Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, 10/14/2013)

The Heavy Metal Tour.   The local event coincided with October Manufacturing Month in Wisconsin, which is designed to spur job creation through the promotion of manufacturing as a career.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the outlook for manufacturing jobs is improving but still down from before the state of the Great Recession.  The most recent numbers (2012 and 2013), though, have been mostly in the 450,000 range.




At the beginning of the year, the national outlook was promising.

Outlook for 2013 Improves as U.S. Manufacturing Climbs. (Bloomberg, 1/2/2013)

ExcerptThe Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index climbed to 50.7 from a three-year low of 49.5 in November, the Tempe, Arizona-based group reported today. Fifty is the dividing line between expansion and contraction.

The index climbed to 56.2 by September 2013.

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