

  (Source: Bloomberg)
The previous forecast was 27,000








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RE: Great comment
By Ringold on 9/11/2012 10:49:03 PM , Rating: 1
a relative owns a metal fabrication company and can't find enough skilled machinists to any price. I've heard similar stories about people in the plumbing and HVAC business as well. You can make a mighty fine living in a skilled trade (let alone the potential to own your own business and really rake it in).

I've seen that first hand too, until recently I worked closely with some construction companies. Welders, for whatever reason, are in seriously short supply around here too. I've seen job postings stay up for months, some manufacturers up north report vacancies lasting over a year before finding someone that can efficiently figure out and operate CNC machines and the like.

What's even more amazing is Democrats sticking their heads in the sand over it, absolutely refusing to hear it. It should be a change to leverage their support in the education sector to bring about reform to address the issue, so its a missed opportunity for them politically IMO by pretending it doesn't exist.

It's not likes it even hard to understand; has a photography major graduate probably ever, in their lives, been in that sort of production environment? Do they know what CNC stands for? Perhaps what SAP software is? Of course not!

