Companies Say 3 Million Unfilled Positions in Skill Crisis: Jobs

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10. The skills are scarce because that $12 an hour nursing job paid $11 an hour in 1980.

and student loans were full government training programs like CETA and now those loans are private are being charged at higher and higher rates.

I know at least seven young people who can get into almost any college but they can tell that there aren't many fields that are going to be around in four years so they are doing other things for now.

Funny how no one had a bad shortage of good IT people when they were paying them 100 grand in the Dot com days, but as soon as we start deflating the pay to half that, they we start seeing the companies trying to change immigration law and outsourcing as much as they can, but the companies still complain that there is a shortage of good IT people.