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Understanding America’s Labor Shortage: The Most Impacted Industries (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) Reports tens of thousands of unfilled jobs across skilled sectors including trades in mid‑2025, updated July 22, 2025 uschamber.com
Includes a Worker Shortage Index showing fewer than one available worker per job in most states uschamber.com
2. U.S. Construction Labor Trends February 2025 (RedHammer/ABC forecasts) Estimates around 439,000 additional construction workers needed in 2025 to meet demand redhammer.io
Highlights rising wages over 4% year‑over‑year, and supply constraints in booming sectors like semiconductor plants redhammer.io
3. Tradespeople Wanted: The Need for Critical Trade Skills in the US (McKinsey & Co.) Documents labor-force participation trends: lower engagement among ages 16–24 post-pandemic; high retirement pressure among older skilled workers mckinsey.com
Notes major perception barriers among Gen Z toward trade careers mckinsey.com
4. Are Skilled Trades in Demand? (Fortis College summary citing PeopleReady and others) Around 40% of skilled trade workers are over 45, almost half of those over 55 massive upcoming retirements fortis.edu
Infrastructure spending under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act expected to create millions of skilled jobs in coming decades fortis.edu
5. RedHammer/BLS Age Data and MultiVu Fast Facts from Bureau of Labor Statistics Over one-third of tradesmen are age 50+, with median age around 55 multivu.com
The Hudson Institute projects the trades workforce gap won’t close until 2050 multivu.com
6. Angi Research Skilled Trades in America Median age of trade professionals is 43, nearly ten years older than the general workforce average angi.com
Confirms ongoing demographic imbalance and aging within the skilled labor pool angi.com
7. Exploding Topics Labor Shortage Rates, 2025 As of 2025, the U.S. faces a labor-shortage rate of about 70% meaning 7 out of 10 employers cannot fill vacancies explodingtopics.com
8. Washington Post piece Manufacturing and Workforce Shortages (May 2025) Reports 450,000 unfilled manufacturing positions as of March 2025, with up to 1.9 million jobs projected to go unfilled by 2033 without intervention washingtonpost.com
Data on average worker age (~44.3) and manufacturing youth participation at just 8% under 25 washingtonpost.com
