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COMMENTARY: America still needs more welders, fewer philosophers

by Don C Brunell
| February 22, 2024 1:00 AM

In 2017, I wrote a column titled “America needs more welders and fewer philosophers.” It was a slogan Florida Sen. Marco Rubio used in his 2016 presidential campaign to call attention to the need for more skilled workers. 

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