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Old 12-14-2014, 07:49 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Grand Rapids - Wyoming, Holland-Grand Haven and Ann Arbor all hit what economists call "full employment" with a rate around 4% unemployment in October; a rate that hasn't been this low since before the post 9/11 recession.

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See which West Michigan county had the state's lowest jobless rate in October | MLive.com

A lot of manufacturers and builders in this area are reporting that they're hurting badly for skilled employees.
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Old 12-14-2014, 12:18 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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No surprise here if this next summer has a construction boom in either cities.
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Old 12-14-2014, 01:07 PM
 
Location: west mich
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No surprise here if this next summer has a construction boom in either cities.
Construction is thankfully one area which can't generally be outsourced, however it is possible at times to hire foreign workers when it is "cost effective". I only post this as "food for thought" because the employment picture isn't always simple, has little "tweaks & twerks" which Americans don't think about, and which may be under the radar of the "news" media.
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Other business examples which are hard to outsource are small ones of all sorts, health care, construction, home improvement, brewpubs, or any such service requiring local production or live "in-person" contact with the merchant. These are the jobs we need more of imo.

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Old 12-15-2014, 09:37 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Construction is thankfully one area which can't generally be outsourced, however it is possible at times to hire foreign workers when it is "cost effective". I only post this as "food for thought" because the employment picture isn't always simple, has little "tweaks & twerks" which Americans don't think about, and which may be under the radar of the "news" media.
Did Obama ‘Approve’ Bridge Work for Chinese Firms?

Other business examples which are hard to outsource are small ones of all sorts, health care, construction, home improvement, brewpubs, or any such service requiring local production or live "in-person" contact with the merchant. These are the jobs we need more of imo.
In Southern states, building demand is so great that they all hire almost all Mexican immigrants. That's pretty much all you see on construction sites there. Hard to do here.
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Old 12-15-2014, 11:01 AM
 
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In Southern states, building demand is so great that they all hire almost all Mexican immigrants. That's pretty much all you see on construction sites there. Hard to do here.
Actually, I live in a small town in SE Michigan that has been experiencing a bit of a building boom recently, some of which has been happening in our neighborhood. The builder works out of Metro Detroit and the workers, or at least those that have been working in our neighborhood, are Mexican immigrants. My husband tried to strike up a conversation with some of them one day while out walking our dog and there wasn't a guy on the crew who spoke more than a few basic words of English.

I'm not saying that this is a common practice across Michigan, and our local builders don't seem to use Mexicans, but this builder is big and covers a large area so he probably has more of an ability to import labor than your average local builder.
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