“The SBA has a critical role to play in stabilizing the manufacturing sector and ensuring the industry is reinforced to prevent future supply chain disruptions, breakdowns and economic bleeding.”

In his open letter to Isabel Guzman, the 27th Administrator of the Small Business Administration, Workshops for Warriors Founder & CEO Hernán Luis y Prado calls for a better equipped and trained manufacturing force. “If we do not begin creating a national training infrastructure now,” Hernán says in the letter, “[the employment] gap will widen to 2.4 million [unfilled manufacturing] positions by 2028 and we will continue to fall behind globally.”