[Alberta's Child]

I have said for a long time that the biggest problem we face in the U.S. in our labor market is that too many people are simply unemployable. The numbers are probably staggering.

Everyone I know who has stories to tell about workplaces with mixed American/immigrant employees in semi-skilled and administrative positions tells me the same thing, and it paints a pathetic picture of the American work force.

[dfwgator]

Over time it became a “self-fulfilling prophecy”. Americans felt jobs that illegals do are “beneath them.”

[central_va]

I have said for a long time that the biggest problem we face in the U.S. in our labor market is that too many people are simply unemployable. The numbers are probably staggering.

Pay more. People will work harder and get training on their own.

[Myrddin]

I have said for a long time that the biggest problem we face in the U.S. in our labor market is that too many people are simply unemployable.

From daily experience, I'm finding places of business that are so hard up for employees that they hire people with a good work ethic that are just incapable of performing at the necessary level. There are also plenty with poor work ethics whose ability to perform can't be evaluated.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I have said for a long time that the biggest problem we face in the U.S. in our labor market is that too many people are simply unemployable.

The "unemployable rate"is over 50%. I blame ubiquitous marijuana use and the wild over-prescription of anti-depressants.

Cultural acceptance of self-medication over the past four decades has radically altered the employment landscape.