If we took all of the illegal immigrants out of construction, labor jobs would actually pay well again and people right out of high school could start making a decent living without college. But when Jose will do it for 12$ an hour and live packed 10 people to a one bedroom apartment, its kinda hard to want to hire someone that should get paid 25$ an hour and buy their own house to raise a family in.
Every roof in my home town is being installed by migrants from what I can see.
If we took all of the illegal immigrants out of construction, labor jobs would actually pay well again and people right out of high school could start making a decent living without college. But when Jose will do it for 12$ an hour and live packed 10 people to a one bedroom apartment, its kinda hard to want to hire someone that should get paid 25$ an hour and buy their own house to raise a family in.
Exactly, we’d be back to one income households doing just fine.
Yup. Ive been in construction for the last 20 years and watched it decline into 'most crews dont speak English, they work hard but do a shit job'.