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No, it starts with making RIGHT TO WORK the law. The twin evils of unionism and multiculturalism (affirmative action, set asides and laws favoring homosexual deviants) are business killers and thus are job killers.
Government needs to help???They destroyed America!
Many companies are literally begging workers to come on board, offering well-paying, high-skilled work and training just to stay afloat.
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Color me dubious.
Quite a large range in that estimate, and I don't believe it for a second. And I don't believe for a second that there are not adequate numbers of Americans willing to train for good paying jobs. We see the occasional immigration raid on restaurant chains and slaughter houses where hundreds of illegals are removed from jobs, then large numbers of Americans apply for and fill the jobs within no time at all.
17% - 18% real unemployment, yet they can't find qualified trainees for millions of high paying jobs?
But that absurd range from 3 - 15 million unfilled jobs throws the entire claim into question. Some pretty imprecise estimates involved there.
There are many reasons for this. One big reason is the abandonment of trades education in the public schools. Not only do they not teach it, it is not seen as a respectable career path.
And it won't matter for the rest of his life what trades he knows NO ONE WILL EVER HIRE HIM FOR THAT BECAUSE it just never occurs to anyone that a college grad might well have apprenticed for a craft or licensed skilled occupation.
Like the writer thought there would be only unskilled labor and college graduates at some future time.
The only thing that set us back in the traditional program that got folks through college was the speculation in housing ~ too many "everybody gotta' have a house" fanatics, jobs for latinos and property speculators conspired to give us an 11 million unit overhang.
Yup, we now have 11 million empty houses in this country ~ you could house 5 or 6 people in each with comfort.
At today's rate of new housing starts, that'd be good for 22 years!
I don't think there's ever been a nation in history that had a 22 year housing overhang.
To get there we gave the college kids loans ~ so they didn't have to work at the trades to get through school ~ imported every criminal in latin America, and wiped out the savings of a lifetime for almost every family in the nation.
We have a 9% raw unemplyment rate, with 19% underemployed on top of that. There are no new jobs. There are no construction jobs. College tuition continues to increase.
When I was 41 years old, I was laid-off from the engineering department at a nuclear plant. That was in 1993.
Could not find work for two years. Why? I was told I was over-qualified for nearly everything.
What was really outrageous about that time, 1993 - 1995, is that hundreds of thousands of U.S. electrical and computer engineers were unemployed, but the high-tech firms insisted on hiring foreign engineers, newly graduated.
Reading this article reminded me of that.
The lack of trained/skilled workers is at total lie.
And why should age be an issue. I know there is a bias against hiring a tech worker over 40, but it is stupidity of youthful managers and recruiters.
I am 63 and have no desire to retire, but have been unemployed for quite a while. Had a similar spell when I was 55. Good for another 15 years for the right circumstances, but we shall see how that is going to work out.
The article is bunk.
Rush was talking about a report he’d read that said on its own, American manufacturing would be the third largest economy in the world. Big plants are closing but manufacturing is taking place in smaller businesses throughout the USA.
Deregulate and detax...and watch the American job machine roar!!
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We have established a negative feedback loop for the future workers to learn the skills required to “build” stuff. Why put in the extra hours to learn these types of skills when the CEOs will just have you train the overseas labor force to do your job and then ship the factory out overnight? Until the government gives incentives (both positive and negative) to convince CEOs this is a bad way to run their business in America, the bleeding will continue. The more of this behavior they get rewarded for doing, the smaller the workforce that wants to gamble on this type of future, which then gives the CEOs more reason to accelerate gutting what’s left. Eventually they will succeed in doing it if nothing changes in the current state of affairs.
Y'know, it's a little known fact...
Get rid of 70% of the colleges and all liberal arts degrees.
Trade schools starting at high school level.
Bring back home ec and shop classes.
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Won't work in many places. Here in CA we have just north of 6 million K-12 students. Over half have no desire to be anything more than low skilled service workers, fruit pickers or gangbangers.