Off-topic for aiqbench
This story was gathered from a source we follow but falls outside AI and quantum coverage, so there is no aiqbench take for it.
Jim Farley is right about Gen Z and blue-collar work. We see firsthand how the industry is failing them
At the International Youth Foundation, we've spent over a decade building automotive talent pipelines in Mexico and South Africa and One lesson holds up.
Ford CEO Jim Farley recently said “the air we breathe is a four-year degree.” In other words, college is the default path we steer every kid toward. He’s right, and he deserves credit for pushing back on it. Ford has even commissioned Ad Council research on how students, parents, and teachers see the trades. The Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades, which Ford launched with Google, BlackRock, and Carhartt, just released a detailed new look at what the…
Excerpt shown under the publisher's RSS terms · 77 words · full text and figures are on the publisher's site
Related coverage
‘I love telling people that I’m a mechanic’: This Gen Z woman ditched her law aspirations for blue-collar work—and now outearns her friends
Fortune · Oct 14, 2026
Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US
The Verge · Jul 27, 2026
Podcast: The Future of AI: from Enterprise Adoption to Open Source Sovereignty
InfoQ · Sep 25, 2026
Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI
Interconnects · Sep 22, 2026