It's a topic we seem to be answering daily, "Where are all the workers?". While it's an issue that spans more than just the construction industry, unlike those other industries, we've been trying to answer this question for decades. For those answers, we have to look at more than just the last 18 months.
Staffing issues in the trades can be traced back to the 1970s when college students increased nearly 25% from 1969-1979. That phenomenon would again repeat itself in the 1990s when that decade saw an increase of over 15%. (Source: Nation Center for Education Statistics). The nation's focus on higher education and white-collar professions set the trades up for inevitable challenges...
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