Posted on 08/07/2018 11:10:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says 20,000 unemployed people are looking for work in Montgomery, Greene and Miami counties, the three counties that make up the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area.
But some employers look at the slim pickings they get from job fairs and want ads and wonder where all the good workers are.
The disconnect between those looking for work and companies struggling to find workers is one reason so many people in the region are not reaping the full rewards of the booming economy. It’s also a reason companies see their job openings going unfilled.
“What they are saying is, ‘I have the opportunity to win more contracts if I could find more workers,’” said Angelia Erbaugh, president of the Dayton Region Manufacturers Association, representing 400 regional companies. “So, they are in fact turning away work.”
How can companies get the workers they need to help the region prosper and how can more people land the jobs they need to improve their lives? That is the focus of The Path Forward, a Dayton Daily News initiative aimed at finding solutions to the region’s biggest problems.
There is good economic news locally. The June unemployment rate in the three-county Dayton metro area was 5.1 percent, according to non-seasonally adjusted numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s well down from the dreadful numbers posted during the recession years, and some previously discouraged job hunters are once again looking for work.
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Who cares? There are Americans for those jobs, pay your existing people more and increase the starting wage. Or shut up. Employers have been in the drivers seat so long they forgot how the free market works.
I wonder how many people would have left the line if he had said that a drug-test would be required in two weeks, and failure would be grounds for firing.
-> Like it or not, testing positive for drugs no longer indicates a criminal background.
-> Unemployment is really boring.
-> Not all drug users are irredeemably addicted.
This is coming from someone who hates drug use, hates drug legalization, and who was fairly bitter and resentful of useless, pot-smoking co-workers when I was a teen worker. But hey, how bright did my boss have to be to check where his stock-boys disappeared to for about three hours a day? He obviously was OK with it.
An unintended consequence of making the poor comfortable in their poverty.
Not necessarily. Many of these jobs require specific skills. We don’t teach many of them any more. If I’m 70 something there ain’t enough money available to lure me back into a welding job
Unintended consequences. When combined government benefits surpass wages applicants can afford to be picky.
Seems some rebalancing is in order.
A couple of weeks ago I spoke with some young people sitting at an outside cafe. They all had comps and were job searching. None wanted to move out of Broward county Fl. Seems they all had degrees but no will.
No it doesn’t. You can’t pay enough to lure a retired seventy something back into a previous job
Easy fix for H1B being used to just hire foreigners cheaper: charge $40,000 per year per visa. Employers will go back to just using them to get high level experts who are not available in the US.
Too many square pegs for those rpund holes.
But, alas, the FLOOD of Criminal Aliens keeps SUPRESSING wages.
Another very interesting study found that the literacy (including quantitative literacy) of students with Associates’ degrees was far higher than the literacy of students with only a high-school diploma, and much less different from the literacy of those with Bachelor’s degrees. And yet I’ve seen income reports showing that those with Associates’ degrees hardly should have bothered getting an associate’s degree.
How to make meaning from these studies? HR departments are treating AS/AA holders as if they barely graduated high school, but SHOULD be tapping them for fairly high-functioning work. Why the discrimination? There’s been a GLUT of BS/BA workers, not a shortage. When you have a BS/BA student and an AS/AA student both applying for the same job, why take the AS/AA student? And of course, 4-year colleges are much more geared towards political indoctrination than 2-year colleges which really aim to provide the most skills in the least amount courses possible.
For years, the midwest has had plenty of jobs. I must concede that there are far too many kids who’d rather live by the beach of a major social hot-spot and live off their parents than live where the jobs are. The sad and disgusting thing is that they really just end up hanging out in bars and night clubs, as if you have to be in Manhattan or Miami Beach or Boston to get drunk and talk about how f**kable the waitress is.
>> Non felon: somebody I can feel reasonably confident that he won’t steal from me or get into a fight with co-workers or customers. <<
Right. Someone you “feel” reasonably confident won’t steal from you. And those feelings are based on what, exactly?
Workers have to pass drug tests. The vast majority of unemployed did not pass.
I worked for the water department 15 years. Had one of the department heads that knew nothing about civil engineering or water distribution systems. He had a degree in hotel/ hospitality.
But we met our racial equality quota.
Guy was as useless and made 6 figures.
and cut benefits. Drastically.
Hunger motivates.
Your fix sums it up well.
I find those job openings that want all kinds of high priced education, expensive certs, and boatloads of experience that pay peasant wages laughable and sad.
“He was now having to go and recruit against the military recruiters at the high school, and try to entice the next graduating class to enter his production line.”
The druggies will flunk the drug tests of the military, and they will not be able to join.
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