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‘It’s Only a Matter of National Security’: America’s Workforce Academy’s Mission to Fill the Workforce Gap

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‘It’s Only a Matter of National Security’: America’s Workforce Academy’s Mission to Fill the Workforce Gap
Mike Rowe, the founder of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, speaks during a panel at the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 2026. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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Mike Rowe has been on a lonely mission. For two decades, he has been raising the alarm.

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Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.