welders Archives - Marketplace

⏩ Donations to Marketplace are being MATCHED right now! ⏩ Double my gift

Efforts to boost manufacturing and clean energy run up against a shortage of welders

by Justin Ho

Apr 5, 2024

Welders are needed to build and upgrade roads and bridges, energy infrastructure and chip foundries. But the profession has an image problem.

There’s a perception that welding is a dirty, dangerous and dead-end career. Employers are trying to change that.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

LISTEN

EMBED

SUBSCRIBE