[9YearLurker]

No need for a guest worker anything with 18% effective unemployment.

[Jedidah]

If some of those 18% were skilled enough to do the high-tech work that most jobs now require.

There’s a big gap between available jobs and available workers because we have a large, uneducated, unmotivated underclass.

Not everyone, certainly. Lots of good people out of work right now, because of terrible economic policy.

These are times when a high school diploma, a generic college degree, or basic competency just isn’t enough.

[Polybius]

No need for a guest worker anything with 18% effective unemployment.

When you round up 500 Americans willing to pick crops, send me their names and I'll get them a contract.

WENATCHEE, Wash. - A crackdown on illegal immigration could leave cherry growers without enough pickers, as the crop ripens in a few weeks. The manager of the Washington Growers Clearinghouse in Wenatchee, Kirk Mayer, says if growers can't harvest the crop, they risk losing their business. The highly perishable cherries are labor intensive. Mayer says they require six pickers per acre, compared to one picker per acre for apples. A labor shortage was already expected this season. Some growers lost part of their crop last year for lack of pickers.

[Polybius]

No need for a guest worker anything with 18% effective unemployment.

When you round up 500 Americans willing to pick crops, send me their names and I'll get them a contract.

WENATCHEE, Wash. - A crackdown on illegal immigration could leave cherry growers without enough pickers, as the crop ripens in a few weeks. The manager of the Washington Growers Clearinghouse in Wenatchee, Kirk Mayer, says if growers can't harvest the crop, they risk losing their business. The highly perishable cherries are labor intensive. Mayer says they require six pickers per acre, compared to one picker per acre for apples. A labor shortage was already expected this season. Some growers lost part of their crop last year for lack of pickers.