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Crain’s: Bureaucratic bottleneck slows city’s construction boom

With construction seemingly on every corner, it might come as a surprise to New Yorkers that many projects haven’t been able to put shovels in the ground. It’s not for lack of financing, crews or equipment. What’s missing is a single worker, whose absence keeps projects stuck on the drawing board: a site-safety person.

Forbes – Why We Desperately Need To Bring Back Vocational Training In Schools

Throughout most of U.S. history, American high school students were routinely taught vocational and job-ready skills along with the three Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. Indeed readers of a certain age are likely to have fond memories of huddling over wooden workbenches learning a craft such as woodwork or maybe metal work, or any one of the hands-on projects that characterized the once-ubiquitous shop class.

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