{"id":4979,"date":"2026-09-07T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/america-needs-workers-as-college-costs-soar\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:05:24","slug":"america-needs-workers-as-college-costs-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/america-needs-workers-as-college-costs-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"America Needs Workers as College Costs Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FHlFr_7WrUdo%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&amp;apos;THERE IS A FUTURE&amp;apos;: Trump admin launches Foundry school to train skilled workers\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HlFr_7WrUdo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 September 7, 2026 (STL.News) America faces an unusual economic challenge. The country is working to expand domestic manufacturing and create skilled jobs; at the same time, families are facing rapidly rising college costs, and employers are searching for qualified people to fill technical positions. The United States added 162,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Manufacturing employment continued to trend higher, adding about 16,000 jobs during the month. Machinery manufacturing added about 6,000 positions, while fabricated metal product manufacturing added another 6,000. Those numbers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/america-needs-workers-as-college-costs-soar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 September 7, 2026 (STL.News) America faces an unusual economic challenge. The country is working to expand domestic manufacturing and create skilled jobs; at the same time, families are facing rapidly rising college costs, and employers are searching&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}