Read Mike Rowe. On Tucker Carlson tonight he claimed 75% of 5.6 million currently open positions in America are unfilled, skilled jobs requiring no college degree. Not $100/hr, but $40/hr ? Yes. They are unfilled because American school kids have been told skilled labor is beneath them — it isn’t “cool” — by high school guidance counselors. They would rather work in an office cubicle for $15/hr in a “white collar” customer service job or at Starbucks and complain that there are no good jobs out there for their “degree”.
These are not my own theories, but I’ve seen this guy and others like Ratzenberger saying this in interviews on FOX for years. This is what he has testified to the Senate and met with the Secretary of Education about — several times since 2001. He has been complaining that vocational classes were removed from high schools and kids unsuited for college are all being pushed to college while millions of skilled jobs go unfilled.
As a mfg business owner, I’ve been saying this for 30 years.kids have been discouraged from mfg work by the schools and popular culture. Add this to the competion from off shoring ,and you got a mess. It’s a shame really.
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