Posted on 08/06/2018 10:17:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Almost like clockwork, a growing US economy cranks out new jobs. In July, it added 157,000 positions, the US Labor Department reported Friday; in June, 248,000.
But with unemployment near 20-year lows and some analysts touting “full employment,” are there enough available people to keep filling them?
Population growth can account for about a third to a half of the new hires. But to keep the economy growing, people not currently working need to come off the sidelines to reenter the workforce. And that’s what’s happening. The story of who and how is a sometimes messy process, with people struggling with issues from health to criminal backgrounds getting jobs, losing them, and then gaining the courage to try again.
It’s also a tale of progress and hope.
Down the corridor from a law office, 10 floors above Boston’s bustling financial district, a dozen men and women are seated around tables shaped in a U. They’re taking an intensive two-week course here at JVS CareerSolution, learning how to find work despite a background of addiction or criminal activity.
There’s general agreement here that the economy is strong and that it’s a good time to look for a job. But there are complications.
“I have never had a problem finding a job; I have always had a problem keeping a job because of my CORI,” says Alonzo, wearing a bright white T-shirt. (The Monitor did not ask for last names in order to respect the privacy of the class.)
Massachusetts’ CORI, or Criminal Offender Record Information, is an obstacle for many in the class. Mark, a former mechanic, was recently rejected for jobs at two garages because of his criminal background. “You try to change your life,” he says, “and it's not working.”
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We can’t justify higher wages, especially for the poor, if we let liberals keep bringing in low skill labor to keep labor costs down.
They can have open borders or better pay for the poor, not both.
Grand statement...the rub, of course, how does none know?
Where do you live?
Nice attitude. Are you impaired? I care, but not about you.
Is it a basement condo?
Nope.
But the kind of dingbat A-holes who care if others are impaired are much more of a pain in the butt and threat to society than mere tokers.
I know three mere tokers that are dead, so rock on and die.
Everyone dies.
Not everyone devolves into a jackboot licker masquerading as a conservative.
There's a solution for that.
BE the "better job".
The downside is minimum age is 55, so there are no hot young Asian girls here.
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