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Are Low Wages Causing The Skilled Trades Shortages?

Are low wages causing the skilled trades shortages?

  • February 17, 2017
  • Lou Glazer
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The Grand Rapids Business Journal recently published an op-ed and comment that lays out the two most likely reasons for more demand by employers for skilled trades workers in manufacturing and construction than there are qualified applicants for those jobs.…

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