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NEWS: The Missing Engineers

The power industry has a talent problem: Plenty of infrastructure, but not nearly enough skilled engineers. (Bloomberg)

  • So how to solve the problem? “You either birth them or you import them,” said UPenn Wharton professor Zeke Hernandez. “Shortages become quite severe in an environment of declining birth rates, increasing retirements, and now a restrictive immigration regime.”