Mike Feinberg on the 2.1 Million Trade Jobs America Can’t Fill — and What Houston Is Doing About It
Last year, U.S. employers posted nearly 600,000 job openings in the skilled trades. About 150,000 new workers entered the trades labor pool through apprenticeship programs. The gap between those two numbers is not a rounding error. It is, according to a major new report from commercial real estate firm JLL, a structural crisis that could…