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‘I don’t know why I need to go to college’: Ford CEO says his Gen Z son worked as a mechanic and wondered if the 4-year degree was still worth it | Fortune
Jim Farley hosted a panel with Mike Rowe, who said, “Nothing in the history of Western civilization has gotten more expensive, more quickly” than college.
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Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to his Gen Z factory workers: They were saying they ‘had to have three jobs’ | Fortune
During the UAW strike of 2023, Farley said he was shocked by what he heard: “Old-timers in our plants were saying, ‘It’s no longer a career, Mr. Farley.‘”
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Ford CEO says America is ‘far behind’ rivals like China on blue-collar industry. ‘It is pretty humbling when you look at where we are’ |…
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, speaking at Ford’s event on Tuesday, warned that she’s “very sober” about the stakes: “China will dominate.”
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‘I don’t know why I need to go to college’: Ford CEO says his Gen Z son worked as a mechanic and wondered if the 4-year degree was still…
Jim Farley hosted a panel with Mike Rowe, who said, “Nothing in the history of Western civilization has gotten more expensive, more quickly” than college.
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Ford CEO reveals that he made sure his Gen Z son ‘had a summer job where he learned how to weld, to fabricate, to really work with his…
Jim Farley said his grandfather, a Ford factory worker, didn’t go to college, and if his son goes on to work in the trades, he’d be “so thrilled as a parent.”
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Ford CEO Jim Farley hopes AI will help blue-collar workers, but 'it’s hard to say that today' | Fortune
Tech innovations like automation have taken work away from the industry in the past, he said.
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Larry Summers praises Ford CEO Jim Farley's concept of the essential economy because it doesn't 'fetishize manufacturing' | Fortune
"And by broadening the concept to fixing and moving as well as making things, I think it becomes a more plausible and a more inclusive concept."