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Iowa’s Employment Problem: Too Many Jobs, Not Enough People
The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 1, 2018 | Shayndi Raice and Eric Morath

Posted on 06/17/2018 6:17:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

MASON CITY, Iowa—Manufacturers in northern Iowa are begging Terry Schumaker for freshly trained workers for their factories. The problem is he doesn’t have enough students to train.

“It’s not like we have the people beating down our door to apply,” said Mr. Schumaker, a dean at the North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City.

It is a problem playing out in many parts of the Midwest, a region with lower unemployment and higher job-opening rates than the rest of the country. Employers, especially in more rural areas, are finding that there are just too few workers. That upends a long-running view in Washington, D.C., and many state capitals, where policy makers often say the unemployed simply lack the skills to get hired....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: employment; hiring; iowa; jobs
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1 posted on 06/17/2018 6:17:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Translation: Not enough people to work for peanuts, like illegals do.


2 posted on 06/17/2018 6:19:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Quick, send busloads of foreign invaders. /s


3 posted on 06/17/2018 6:23:10 PM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Same thing here in Minnesota, at least where I work.

We have a temp agency that has provided us with entry-level factory operators for some years.

They get trained on the day shift. If they make the grade, they get hired fulltime on off shifts, with benefits.

We’re running low on temps. The agency has resorted to posting signs all over the local community. Begging for applicants.

Little or no experience required.

$14.50 to $15.50 per hour.


4 posted on 06/17/2018 6:25:37 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These effin companies are just too cheap to train young people.


5 posted on 06/17/2018 6:25:43 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as wll say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: dfwgator

They pay welders peanuts where you live?


6 posted on 06/17/2018 6:25:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Wall Street Journal has been a mouthpiece of the Cheap Labor Express for decades.

They want to convince US we need to import more cheap labor.


7 posted on 06/17/2018 6:26:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

China did not build a huge $375,000,000,000.00 per year trade deficit, because America is overflowing with great jobs.

President Trump you have the right idea, but please be for AMERICAN JOBS.

Thank you.


8 posted on 06/17/2018 6:28:13 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let's cut the pay for GS-schedule jobs by 80% and move them all to Nome, Alaska, and then complain we can't find enough bureaucrats.

Then we can eliminate the positions!

9 posted on 06/17/2018 6:28:38 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

An 18-year-old making $18/hr ain’t bad for starters. Just teach him to follow directions. I say let them start at age 16 if they can pass the GED.


10 posted on 06/17/2018 6:30:01 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: cba123

By the way,

That is a huge $375,000,000,000.00 trade SURPLUS from China’s perspective..

From America, that is a huge trade deficit.

Largest on record.


11 posted on 06/17/2018 6:30:30 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: dfwgator
Nah.....I believe the article. We spent years telling kids to get a college education and factory work was no longer looked at as honorable work in kids eyes. And that's just how certain ones think even today. Show me a college kid that would even consider factory or labor work today and I'll eat hat! .....My dad was a factory work and when those Men got together you couldn't ask for a better group of fathers or husbands. True proud family men and their families admired them!
12 posted on 06/17/2018 6:32:31 PM PDT by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you could be sure that you could make a life in Iowa with your family for 20 years or so, that would be one thing. But you can’t. It’s a roll of the race.

We were in Oklahoma when everything - oil, banking, telecom - crashed. It was a bloodbath. Everyone moved. I have only one friend still in Oklahoma still from those days, 15 years ago.


13 posted on 06/17/2018 6:33:47 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Sounds like the nation is in a ‘wage correct’ mode.


14 posted on 06/17/2018 6:35:08 PM PDT by caww
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To: Tax-chick

Might also have something to do with them getting tired of constantly having a bullseye on their head, for tornadoes.

Oklahoma really is in a sort of heavy area, for those.


15 posted on 06/17/2018 6:36:15 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Same here, temp to perm with all benes, after a probation period. Use multiple temp agencies and they can’t get enough people. Well, they maybe could if so many didn’t fail the pre employment drug test. Also, after 30 years of bashing mfging in academia, the vast majority of millennials are too good to work in a factory.


16 posted on 06/17/2018 6:37:59 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: cba123

Yeah, we did lots of huddling in the laundry room waiting to die.


17 posted on 06/17/2018 6:40:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: Tax-chick

I lived in Iowa from 1974 to 2002. Didn’t seem expensive, schools are better than average. Winters are cold but that is true of half the country.


18 posted on 06/17/2018 6:40:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: dfwgator

>>Translation: Not enough people to work for peanuts, like illegals do.

Exactly.


19 posted on 06/17/2018 6:41:03 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: crosdaddy

After getting my current job in 1991, I asked a co-worker...”Why are there so many Asians working here?”

The reply was...

“They passed the drug test.”

True story.


20 posted on 06/17/2018 6:43:45 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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