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2020-01-14 Government
Trump Says We Don’t Have Enough American Workers to Fill Skilled Labor Jobs
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Posted by Fred 2020-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Bad call. Complete, total BS.

Impossible to argue we have a skilled worker shortage at the same time that tens of thousands of our domestically-trained PhDs can't get jobs here.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-14 00:28||   2020-01-14 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 BS. There are plenty of skilled, high level candidates. Companies just want to get cheaper ones from offshore.
Posted by KBK 2020-01-14 01:27||   2020-01-14 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 They've had this argument since the 80s and tech workers. What business have done is to suppress the market and incentives to pursue the careers for over 4 decades. Tell them to grow their own if they can't find them. [Gee, that's exactly what the military does through many different programs]
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-14 02:35||   2020-01-14 02:35|| Front Page Top

#4 at the same time that tens of thousands of our domestically-trained PhDs can't get jobs here

Trained in universities whose stated goals are to increase women & minorities (as long as they're not Asians) participation in STEM. Trained in intersectionality and anti-white privilege. Taught, since K-12, by (semi-illiterate) teachers of gender & color.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-14 02:50||   2020-01-14 02:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Yale Pumps Millions into Faculty Diversity Hiring Efforts
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-14 03:06||   2020-01-14 03:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Non-tribe educators, somewhat like Jalapeño flavoured coffee, really never has caught on in some segments of society. Learning be hard.... when you have a race based hatred for the teacher. Getting tribal educators across the finish line requires some adjustments to the standards. There, I said it.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-14 03:16||   2020-01-14 03:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Kick the foreign students out of the universities and things will be fine.
Posted by gorb 2020-01-14 03:48||   2020-01-14 03:48|| Front Page Top

#8 perhaps but only if they'll pay wages above average for the country.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-01-14 05:51||   2020-01-14 05:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, I think he's right. Companies around here are begging for iron workers, welders, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and several others.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-01-14 08:35||   2020-01-14 08:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Deacon hits the nail.

The problem is defining skills. All the left thinks of is programmers and SJW teachers.

We need to develop more of a trade school approach to highlight those trades that need more trained people.

You can, for example, get a fully trained programmer in 6 months with the right course.

Companies don't need PHD whiners.

Posted by AlanC 2020-01-14 08:45||   2020-01-14 08:45|| Front Page Top

#11 But I have a PhD in Intersectionality! I can't live in Mama's basement forever!

Not me, BTW: I'm retired.
Posted by Bobby 2020-01-14 10:51||   2020-01-14 10:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Oh, I think he's right. Companies around here are begging for iron workers, welders, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and several others.

Not one of which requires a university education, much less a STEM degree. This is about the elite cutting their technical labor costs in half (or more in CA) and pocketing the difference. Same thing that happened since the 1990s to the blue collar work force, but moving up the value chain.
Posted by Elmique Uloluck7261 2020-01-14 11:19||   2020-01-14 11:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Same old story...nothing much changes.
Posted by crazyhorse 2020-01-14 11:55||   2020-01-14 11:55|| Front Page Top

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