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Car parts manufacturering and microchips to name a few: dailymail.co.uk/news/ar…
After the great recession, manufacturing trickled back but the long-time locals had by then largely lost their young and talented to the cities. Also, drug abuse issues hampered their remaining workforce. And some Haitians who fled to Florida who had been gra…
Car parts manufacturering and microchips to name a few: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13808817/Springfield-Ohio-Haitian-immigration-population-surge.html
After the great recession, manufacturing trickled back but the long-time locals had by then largely lost their young and talented to the cities. Also, drug abuse issues hampered their remaining workforce. And some Haitians who fled to Florida who had been granted work passes were directed to Ohio to fill the vacuum.
And now they'll be in fear of some pogrom being called against them.
Thanks much for this. I've read at least 10 stories on Springfield this week and this is the first that's given any indication of why there's so many job openings.
Welcome to the fray. In any case, there has been a boom in new jobs, but it seems less like manufacturing jobs are the new farm work. No one wants to do them or employers have issues finding reliable workers. The drug issues, lack of motivation and yhe large percentage of young people relocated meant that when the city successfully hit project after project and reinvented itself as an inexpensive hub for new regional industry, the workforce just wasn't there to support it. As always, you should know this mark, big immigrant pipelines like this only follow industry. I wonder how much more of Biden's red state investment is going to fall on communities that young Americans simply refuse to move to, and end up requiring increased immigration to fill in the gaps.
I think it helps Brown a great deal; that's right in his wheelhouse; manufacturing successes under the Biden administration
I think it was the Newshour a couple of days ago but they had a report from Springfield and one of the employers stated explicitly "The good thing about them (Haitian immigrants) is they are not on drugs during their shift". I listened to the quote twice to be sure I heard it right. It's not shocking per se but still jarring.
I saw that Newshour story too. It was actually the first story I saw on the topic before I did a deep dive searching for specifics on why so many Haitians had moved to this city. The place they visited in the Newshour story was called McGregor Metal and the manager they talked to said he had 30 Haitians working there, which was 10% of his workforce. Okay.....so that accounts for 0.2% of them. It seemed strange to me then and still does that the story didn't elaborate on what the employment draw was to accommodate a surge of 15,000. KingOfSpades' link was the first story I'd seen that gives further explanation.