Ford CEO Jim Farley delivered an urgent message at the company’s Ford Pro Accelerate event on Tuesday, revealing a personal “epiphany” about the crisis facing Gen Z and the wider blue-collar workforce that led to his current push to emphasize the problems with what he calls the “essential economy.” Speaking with Bloomberg’s David Westin at Michigan Central Station, Farley said …
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