Blue-collar workers were promised a revival of American industry and a new era of high-wage trades. Instead, the emerging contours of President Donald Trump's second-term agenda point to a more ...

Blue-collar jobs are in. Two in 5 Gen Zers are pursuing blue-collar work, rejecting the collegiate path and learning trades, according to a May 2025 survey of 1,434 young adults by Resume Builder.

Blue-collar employment is slipping even as political leaders and executives celebrate a manufacturing revival. The latest data show a net loss of 59,000 production and nonsupervisory jobs, a setback ...

If you don't like the idea of attending school and taking on debt because of it, a blue-collar job might be a great fit for you. A lot of people are looking for alternatives to traditional, ...

Geoffrey Hinton’s message on a recent podcast about artificial intelligence was simple: “Train to be a plumber.” Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist often called “the Godfather of AI,” ...

The cost of a college education — long touted as a requirement for a fulfilling, high-paying job — has soared over the last couple of decades, stoking skepticism among Gen Z about the true value of a ...

When Danilo Abdala took a blue-collar job installing pavers in Florida as a way to earn extra money at age 19, he didn’t foresee it leading to a thriving business that took him and his brother Jeff ...