Right now there are a number of good paying jobs for these types of young people, here in the Pennsylvania gas fields.
The #1 problem that these reporters are reporting is that decades of Liberalism has destroyed their work ethic.
The first time things get a little tough, they get into an argument with the boss, or have to pull overtime in bad weather they cop an attitude and they quit.
I think we need people willing to get dirty in the “low skilled” fields just as much as we need the college educated cutting edge workers.
Living just down the road from Ann Arbor I hear this jobs of the past vs jobs of the future crap all the time. The reality is that we need both and always will.