The most popular word in the news these days is crisis. Every way
you turn there's a new "crisis". Well, it turns out that one person's
crisis is probably mirrored by someone else's good news.

"Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It’s the 1970s
U.S. manufacturing is experiencing a rebound, with companies adding
workers amid high consumer demand for products.

Jim TankersleyAlan RappeportAna Swanson
By Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson
Sept. 26, 2022, 3:00 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Ever since American manufacturing entered a long stretch of automation and outsourcing in the late 1970s, every recession has led to
the loss of factory jobs that never returned. But the recovery from the pandemic recession has been different: American manufacturers have now
added enough jobs to regain all that they shed — and then some.

The resurgence has not been driven by companies bringing back factory
jobs that had moved overseas, nor by the brawny industrial sectors and
regions often evoked by President Biden, former President Donald J.
Trump and other champions of manufacturing.

Instead, the engines in this recovery include pharmaceutical plants,
craft breweries and ice-cream makers. The newly created jobs are more
likely to be located in the Mountain West and the Southeast than in the
classic industrial strongholds of the Great Lakes.

American manufacturers cut roughly 1.36 million jobs from February to
April of 2020, as Covid-19 shut down much of the economy. As of August
this year, manufacturers had added back about 1.43 million jobs, a net
gain of 67,000 workers above prepandemic levels."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/business/factory-jobs-workers-rebound.html

"Seniors are stuck home alone as health aides flee for higher-paying jobs

While more elderly seek home care to age in place, low-wage workers are
finding easier jobs with equal or better pay in retail and restaurants"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/25/seniors-home-health-care/

"Immigrants are key to addressing America’s labor shortage, lowering inflation, and growing our economy"

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3619410-immigrants-are-key-to-addressing-americas-labor-shortage-lowering-inflation-and-growing-our-economy/

"The US’s ‘immigration crisis’ is admitting too few immigrants, not too many"

"Even those who don’t agree that US policy plays a large role in driving migration should embrace our plan. The country’s population growth rate
has flatlined. Population growth between 2010 and 2020 was the second
lowest in the country’s history, largely because of declining birth
rates among native-born Americans. We face a crisis of “age dependency”
as the number of seniors rises dramatically relative to working age
adults. Demographic decline is feeding a nationwide care crisis and
imperils the sustainability of programs like Medicare and social
security. Immigration is a necessary solution."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/23/the-uss-immigration-crisis-is-admitting-too-few-immigrants-not-too-many

I expect that the magarat xenophobes will keep up the
anti-immigrant drum beat even when they're having problems finding
someone to wipe their asses for them. And they'll probably still be
complaining because the person doing it doesn't speak good English. lol

TB

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