For 'Manufacturing Day,' let's change outdated perceptions about careers in a growing sector

In many ways, manufacturing in America has never been doing better than it is today.

Manufacturers across the country, like Emerson, are growing. They’re investing and they’re hiring, due in no small part to pro-growth policies out of Washington like tax reform and critical regulatory reform. And yet, manufacturing’s success is simultaneously fueling a burgeoning crisis which, unless sufficiently addressed, threatens both the future of the industry and our economy as a whole.