Not dumping on the average American but I am in a position to know something about who is available for entry level jobs in industry. I had to close a plant in Edison NJ because we couldn’t fill 8 jobs. Couldn’t get candidates to pass drug tests. Closing a plant now in Newark for the same reason. Our work force is recent immigrants from Haiti, Jamaica, India. Local Blacks can’t qualify or don’t want to work shift work. Elk Grove DHS audit of workers when we bought the place made us drop 38 Hispanics. Replacements? “What was your felony conviction for?’ typical question of available replacement workers.
Troubled cities are not typical of average Americans, but if you hire there this is the problem and it plays definitely into the statistics of work force participatiom.
In other words you were to incompetent to raise the starting salary to get the type of employee you need. ITS CALLED SUPPLY AND DEMAND!
You "Captains of industry" want to set wages like communists.. Really pathetic.
PAY MORE!