I have heard from a doctor I know that because of policies in the past decade related to medical education, we are going to have a shortage of doctors in coming years. Probably a lot of other labor shortages since we still have below 4% unemployment. I know our southern border is a big concern, but I also know in an area with a sizable black population, you can only find hispanic construction workers in any quantity. Years of targeting college as the goal of high school has left the trades seriously undersupported in our public education system.
It was Mexicans who pushed Americans out of construction, not the selling of college to American males.
I watched this process as it took first the car washes and restaurants, and ditch digging, then lower level construction like installing molding, then sheetrock, and eventually roofing and on up, also machine shops.
When the first Mexican is hired he turns the boss onto more Mexicans, and they, in turn, create a hostile workplace to Americans and lock out new American hires, until the day comes when the media starts reporting whatever that field is, as “jobs Americans won’t do”.
PS, we have had a “shortage of doctors” for going on 4 decades.
That’s by design. In the ‘70s, the AMA did a bunch of “studies” showing that the medical schools were going to be putting out a surplus of docs if school growth was allowed to continue. And then Horrors! Medical salaries would go DOWN. Oh Noes, can’t let that happen.
So it turned out they were totally WRONG, and by the late ‘80s it was obvious that there were something like 25% fewer docs then needed. This wasn’t for lack of qualified med school applicants, all those schools admit that they turn away way more qualified applicants then they admit.
So they started letting in Third World docs from Pakistan and other charming places. So far, both my parents were victims of these half wits since either the HMOs or hospitals are overrun with them (they be cheap).
And the Caribbean med schools now place pretty much everyone they can graduate. Have a friend who graduated from one of them and has been a really successful doc for 12 years now. Made millions. He was older when he went there and the US med schools don’t admit older people. Didn’t matter. He was smart and makes a fabulous doc.
The AMA is a union determined to increase the paychecks of their members, that’s all. They couldn’t give a crap about medical care in the US. Not their problem.
The doctah shortage can be easily ameliorated by simply expanding and admitting more students, there are hundreds of thousands of capable students in the US who could do the work.