In its 2016-2017 U.S. talent shortage survey, the staffing firm Manpower Group found that skilled trade jobs are the hardest jobs to fill in the U.S. -highlighting a large and growing labor shortage that the industry will only solve by working together. According to the National Association of Home Builders, the problem started during the economic and housing downturn in 2007, when the construction industry alone lost 1.5 million workers. Half of those skilled workers never came back. Further exacerbating the problem today are stricter immigration laws and retiring Baby Boomers who are permanently leaving the workforce.
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