Stats? Don't want any stats. Just some personal observation. I will go first. We have had a long closed factory to re-open. Around 400 jobs, manufacturing. Then our local specialty steel mill is adding 45 new employees as they expand, and they already employ 700. Lower middle class jobs. No welfare needed. Then at my brothers place of employment where they manufacture farm equip, plows, disks, cultivators, harrows, etc, they have more than doubled their workforce since trump took office. In the case of my brother's employer, he said it was because of lower tax rates. But at the same time a bearing assembly that they once made for themselves is now outsourced from china, much cheaper, and yet trump's tarriffs has left one load sitting on the dock in china as this company will not buy it, due to a 1000 bucks in tariffs. So, my brother said they might be making their own bearing assemblies again and adding even more additional workers. So what are you seeing in your neck of the woods? Successes? Or losses?
We have help wanted signs up at every small business and super market in my area for the past 3 years.The local McDonalds has a PERMANENT wood sign posting help wanted and has had for 3 or more years.
A lot of construction here in SOCAL. In the past 6 months I’ve seen a lot of new loaders, excavators, backhoes as well as new farm equipment on flatbed tractor trailers.
Everywhere you drive you see Help wanted signs. Local ad's on TV are screaming for qualified people. All those people who thought Liberal Arts degrees were the stepping stone up should have applied for meaningful careers in other fields where the jobs are. If I was a young person now would be the time to make a move into the workforce even if you have to start at the bottom. Location: Virginia Beach/Norfolk, Va. ;
The unemployment rate in the State of Colorado is now under 3%. Even a miserable, left-wing rag like the Denver Post has had to admit that this is so -- Link: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/18/colorado-unemployment-april-2018/ This was printed on May 18th... it must have KILLED them to have to do it! "Colorado’s unemployment rate slipped to 2.9 percent in April, breaking a seven-month run at 3 percent, according to a monthly update from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment."
