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Originally Posted by finnbow
I think that testing positive for drugs on pre-employment screening along with an unwillingness to relocate to vibrant metro areas for (lots of available) work leaves many in the white working class feeling left behind in economically-depressed small towns and rural America. Meanwhile, they continue taking drugs and refusing to relocate while blaming harder-working and more reliable brown-skinned people for their plight while trusting Trump to work some magic that will bring high-paying jobs to their economically-depressed and poorly-educated towns. Ain't gonna happen.
A number of my closest friends own contracting companies in a variety of trades and the above dynamic is very real in their businesses.
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Relocation is no guarantee either. Jobs in the "vibrant metro areas" are more than likely going to require technical or professional skills that folks from "economically-depressed small towns" don't have.