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October 27, 2026
America's economic strength depends on having the skilled workers and businesses needed to power growing industries. As investment accelerates in advanced manufacturing, logistics, and industrial production, regions must ensure that workforce systems can deliver the talent required to support growth and create pathways to opportunity.
Greater Philadelphia is positioned to seize this opportunity. With a strong industrial base, a growing pipeline of business investment, and expanding demand for skilled workers, the region has the assets needed to strengthen workforce infrastructure and support long-term economic competitiveness.
A new JPMorganChase brief, Workforce Is Infrastructure: Building an Employer-Driven Workforce System That Delivers, examines how Greater Philadelphia can build on this momentum by strengthening the connections among employers, educators, workforce organizations, and community partners.
The brief highlights the region's economic opportunity: more than 3.35 million workers across the broader Philadelphia metropolitan area, approximately 178,500 manufacturing jobs, more than $21 billion in announced commercial investment tied to 16 projects, and 7,500 expected jobs linked to those investments. It outlines several priorities for action, including improving employer-demand signaling, modernizing and expanding training capacity, increasing apprenticeships and work-based learning opportunities, and strengthening pathways to placement, retention, and career advancement.
The brief coincides with the Philadelphia Local Impact Lab, hosted by JPMorganChase and the Greater Philadelphia Growth Partnership. The invitation-only roundtable will bring together workforce, education, training, and employer leaders to explore practical solutions for expanding advanced manufacturing talent pipelines across Southeastern Pennsylvania. The conversation will focus on three persistent workforce challenges: training capacity and infrastructure, the experience gap, and apprenticeship capacity. Participants will work to identify actionable recommendations for employers, funders, and public-sector partners that can help scale proven workforce solutions across the region.
