PhotoNationwide, there are now about 200,000 unfilled construction jobs, according to the National Association of Home Builders. If America were as simple as a lake, builders would just raise wages, incomes would rise and the problem would be over. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyConstruction is hard, many families demean physical labor and construction is highly cyclical. Hundreds of thousands of people lost construction jobs during the financial crisis and don’t want to come back. I wish they had a little more faith in freedom, dynamism and human ingenuity.

Source: New York Times February 24, 2017 08:15 UTC