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Why the Great Driver Shortage Is Now Top of Mind for Shippers & a Driver of a Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

Cassidy of the Journal of Commerce (JOC), and the continued climb of the stock market alludes to an imminent, modern-day Industrial Revolution. percent by the end of the third-quarter in 2017. The 2017 Hurricane Season Hit Top Driver Recruitment Areas. Over the last four years, trucker wages and benefits have risen 7.6

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Addressing Labor Shortages in Warehouse and DC Operations

NC State SCRC

A recent story in the Wall Street Journal trumpeted that “ The job market doesn’t get much better than this. The Journal cited the case of one individual who dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and started selling drugs, which eventually led to a lengthy incarceration. economy has added jobs for 100 consecutive months.

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Why Taxing Automation is a Bad Idea

Talking Logistics

Earlier this year, the billionaire founder of Microsoft Bill Gates said in an interview with online news journal Quartz that governments should tax companies use of robots to “temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.” But California is not the first to raise this idea. And the silver lining?

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Time to Reimagine STEM Education from Bottom to Top

Enterra Insights

1] Jay Bayne, “ STEM education needs revision ,” Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel , 30 April 2016. [2] ” The Huffington Post , 23 January 2017. [3] The point is: It’s time to reimagine STEM education from bottom to top. The importance of STEM education. Footnotes. [1]

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