Fire Up Your Career: The Skilled Trades

All this week (Sept. 2-6), Scripps News will partner with WorkingNation to explore the opportunities in the skilled trades, what’s driving the demand for workers, and programs that are helping to fill the worker shortfall.

Tune into Scripps News each morning at 9:45 am ET to hear from the WorkingNation team as part of our Fire Up Your Career special coverage.

Scripps News is partnering with WorkingNation, a leading nonprofit media organization focused on issues impacting workers and employment in the U.S., to drive awareness of and action to address ageism in the workplace. The two media organizations have joined forces to release a new special, “Breaking Barriers: Embracing Age in the Workforce,” as part of their co-branded week-long program initiative, “Age in America.” The one-hour “Breaking Barriers” special, co-produced by WorkingNation and Scripps News, is aimed at advancing critical conversations around ageism at work. It is part of WorkingNation’s Emmy®-winning “Breaking Barriers” series. The first installment in the series, Embracing Disabilities in the Workforce, was released in 2023 and has won numerous accolades, including five Telly awards to date.

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