Labor Shortage

Change Course aims to solve reincarceration rate, labor shortage – WHO13.com
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Change Course aims to solve reincarceration rate, labor shortage – WHO13.com

by: Zach Fisher Posted: Oct 8, 2022 / 06:56 PM CDT DES MOINES, Iowa — One couple in Iowa is focused on fixing two glaring problems in the state: the reincarceration rate and the labor shortage. Joseph and Karin Johnson are the two behind Change Course, a personal development and career course for the underserved in the…

Farron: Migration has to be part of the solution to the labor shortage Pipa News
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Farron: Migration has to be part of the solution to the labor shortage Pipa News

By Tim Farron If we want to see economic growth, a good place to start is by addressing the labor shortage. I am glad that there appears to be – at least from the media headlines – some recognition by the Prime Minister that migration must be part of the solution. These shortfalls are visible…

Echoes of the past – Historical vulnerabilities to trafficking repeat over the centuries
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Echoes of the past – Historical vulnerabilities to trafficking repeat over the centuries

Editor’s note: This is a historical look at the conditions that lead to huge societal issues that contribute to trafficking. Vulnerabilities that are not the “fault” of the persons that are affected need to be considered in the bigger picture of human trafficking.  September 19, 2022 6:14 am By Dr. Jon Gaudio [email protected] Crimea. War….

There is a serious forced labor problem in the United States
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There is a serious forced labor problem in the United States

Genocide, slave trade, forced labor and other evil acts are the undeniable original human rights sins in the history of American colonialism and capitalism. From the slaughter and enslavement of Native American Indians by early European colonists, to the exploitation of black slaves under the prevailing slave trade in the 18th century, to the systematic…

Watford City To Host Human Trafficking Awareness Event – The Roundup
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Watford City To Host Human Trafficking Awareness Event – The Roundup

Every growing community is faced with new issues. The expanding industry and population of western North Dakota has brought about awareness of previously un-addressed types of exploitation. While many have heard of human trafficking, they generally associate it with sex trafficking: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of…

Human-trafficking lawsuit against Iowa college survives legal challenge – Iowa Capital Dispatch
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Human-trafficking lawsuit against Iowa college survives legal challenge – Iowa Capital Dispatch

A human-trafficking lawsuit brought by 14 international students from Chile against Western Iowa Tech Community College has survived a round of legal challenges and is proceeding in federal court. The school and other defendants are accused of working in concert to entice impoverished students to leave their home in Chile and come to Iowa, where…