As Southwest Florida sheds the last vestiges of the Great Recession — with a resurgence in the manufacturing and the housing industries — a long slumbering problem affecting businesses is being felt once again. You have probably heard local homebuilders complaining that the skilled laborers needed to get their industry back to prerecession par are hard to find. So many left the construction business as Manatee and Sarasota counties sank into recession, it left a staggering mark: 8,500 fewer jobs than at the peak 23,000 during the building boom. The great welder shortage might be a new topic to many, but it is being felt just about everywhere. A prominent National Science...
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