Labor

Shifting Workforce a Threat to Public Infrastructure Funding?

Posted by on September 5, 2012 at 12:07 pm

Yes, it is. This from Governing Magazine in an excellent introspective written by Neil Howe: The consequences of this quantitative population shift are dramatic and sweeping. First and foremost, of course, health-care consumption will skyrocket, along with massive spending increases in federal entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. As retirement-age boomers begin to move [...]

The First Sign of a Labor Shortage: Skills Gap

Posted by on January 11, 2012 at 8:31 pm

In a couple of presentations I’ve given in the past few months, I’ve talked about one of the key drivers in the water and wastewater utility industry being a pending shortfall in the labor pool.  One of the leading indicators of a shortage is not the lack of employable people, but rather the lack of [...]

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