| Barry-xlovecam |
03-01-2017 06:22 PM |
Trump is so fucking full of shit ...
The infrastructure workforce numbers just don't add up ...
Trump is selling a bag of shit tied up with a pink ribbon ...
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The construction labor market at current wages is tight and has been tightening for the past several years. Last summer, when construction unemployment was at its seasonal low, there were only around 400,000 unemployed construction workers. This is around the lowest level we’ve seen for construction unemployment since the late 1990s. So if we’re going to get an unprecedented amount of construction employment growth, they’re going to have to come from other industries, outside the labor force, or abroad.
Immigrant labor, particularly undocumented workers, represent a significant proportion of the construction labor force. Bloomberg reported last week that up to 1.1 million construction workers in the U.S. are undocumented, so stepping up deportations would deplete an already-too-small construction labor pool.
Without any radical changes to immigration policy, we might have capacity for an additional 50,000 construction workers per year for infrastructure projects -- far short of the 570,000 needed under Trump’s infrastructure proposal. Significant growth beyond that would likely require much higher wages and poaching from other industries, creating labor shortages in those industries.
The infrastructure proposal is among Trump’s most politically viable, but economics will kill it.
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Many of those unemployed construction workers are unemployed for good reason: many of them are low skilled itinerant workers at best ... if you don't know what is the worst, you have never worked in the construction trades
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...structure-plan |
