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The skills gap is very real and is only getting larger.
I remember several years back, my son recounted how Dell had opened a factory somewhere in NC and had planned to hire a lot of local people. Fast forward a few years and they closed the factory because they never could find enough people with the requisite skills to work there.
He also says that in the years that he has been in the Army (20), the new enlistees that come in each year are less and less capable of comprehending the manuals that they are supplied in the engineering corps.
There isn't a large pool of people coming out of HS that immediately qualify for the types of jobs that manufacturing is offering today.
And convincing people who have incurred large student loans that manufacturing is a a viable way to pay them off will continue to be difficult unless employers change the way they view these workers.
It's a real uphill battle.
Absolutely correct. A lot of millennials are not too fond of working in a manufacturing environment, either.
your dad's generation said the same damn thing about yours.
Oh those darn kids today's with their comics.
Damn lazy hippies.
Useless punk's
Freakin Millennials.
hmmm maybe the problem isn't the kids, maybe it is the old angry people who see their world closing in and want to pretend what follows is flawed.
I never said any of those things about millennials, so don't put words in my mouth. Manufacturing is going to need people in its high tech future, and it's going to have to look to other countries to find those people.
I'm so tired of these builders who have to develop on every piece of land they can find. They cut down mature trees, burden our school systems and our roads. Yeah, they get a hefty price for their homes but what do we get. Depending on where you live nature is being destroyed by these developers. We don't need more new homes. It's pretty outrageous that developers are more important to Trump then the people.
I'm so tired of these builders who have to develop on every piece of land they can find. They cut down mature trees, burden our school systems and our roads. Yeah, they get a hefty price for their homes but what do we get. Depending on where you live nature is being destroyed by these developers. We don't need more new homes. It's pretty outrageous that developers are more important to Trump then the people.
Arizona is growing too much. The school district I work in has 24 schools, 19 are elementary K-8, 4 are high schools and one is an alternative school. The sad part, we keep seeing an expansion in student population and developments. I'm not chicken little when it comes to Arizona's water supply like some are, but I don't know where equilibrium is for us and I don't want to find out the hardway...
Yeah, I agree. Have you seen some of the people who come out of places like nursing schools ? THOSE are some real losers . They go into fields like this to avoid hard work. That is why there is such a glut of nurses looking for work these days.
This is funny on so many levels.
Nursing has a severe shortage in this country.
Nursing 'school' is a four year undergrad program only now a days.
Center city Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis would love for a plant with good paying jobs to open.
But the only way a manufacturing company of any size would relocate there is if the federal,state or municipal govt. GIVE them something to build there.
Manufacturers, businesses relocate or locate in areas that are 'attractive' to their employees -- including upper management.
Hence the growth in areas that are geographically more attractive then say ....any of these cities...plus the problems with the municipal govt.
You can blame the residents of those cities for their problems but the bigger issue is the municipal governments that are incompetent.
And are plants being built in inner cities? Seems more often plants are relocated to rural southern states that have no Union presence.
BINGO!!! You win. Right to work states and more pleasing climate for employees.
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