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Mark's avatar

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.

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Thomas Hounds's avatar

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.

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Jonathan's avatar

I think it helps Brown a great deal; that's right in his wheelhouse; manufacturing successes under the Biden administration

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