Man what are you babbling about?
You being welded to some time period in history instead of living in the present. I wasn't the person who posted an ancient article about home construction in the 1950's, but you did. I didn't post the suggestion people go to work in manufacturing when manufacturing has largely been either moved out of country and/or many of the positions are now preformed by robots. A total of 3.2 million – one in six U.S. manufacturing jobs – have disappeared between 2000 and 2007.
Foreign born Latino workers landed two out of every three new construction jobs in 2006 benefiting from strong employment growth in the industry even as the housing market endured a year-long slump. The construction industry employed 2.9 million Hispanic workers in 2006. Hispanics accounted for 25% of the total employment of 11.8 million in the construction sector.
• The median weekly earnings of Hispanic workers increased 2%, from
$420 to $428, between 2005 and 2006. This rate of increase was higher
than for other groups. However,
Hispanics still have the lowest median
wage of any racial or ethnic group.• The median weekly
earnings of foreign-born Hispanic workers fell 3.1%
in 2006, from $400 to $388.Hmm, wonder why Latinos are finding jobs in construction while some other folks who previously held construction jobs remain unemployed today? Could it be the wages which appear to be less then $10 an hour in the construction trades for Latinos.
