{"id":2850,"date":"2017-07-26T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T05:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2017-07-26T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T05:07:13","slug":"economy-needs-workers-but-drug-tests-take-a-toll-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"Economy Needs Workers, but Drug Tests Take a Toll -NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by NELSON D. SCHWARTZ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/nelson-d-schwartz\">NELSON D. SCHWARTZ<\/a>JULY 24, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Economy Needs Workers, but Drug Tests Take a Toll\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F07%2F24%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fdrug-test-labor-hiring.html#?secret=C2ewwYDqaD\" data-secret=\"C2ewwYDqaD\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio \u2014 Just a few miles from where President Trump will address his blue-collar base here Tuesday night, exactly the kind of middle-class factory jobs he has vowed to bring back from overseas are going begging.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that local workers lack the skills for these positions, many of which do not even require a high school diploma but pay $15 to $25 an hour and offer full benefits. Rather, the problem is that too many applicants \u2014 nearly half, in some cases \u2014 fail a drug test.<\/p>\n<p>\u5c0d\u6b64\u554f\u984c\uff0cAlan Krueger \u6709\u4e00\u7bc7\u5f88\u53d7\u6ce8\u610f\u7684\u8ad6\u6587\uff1a<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonfed.org\/-\/media\/Documents\/economic\/conf\/great-recovery-2016\/Alan-B-Krueger.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">https:\/\/www.bostonfed.org\/-\/media\/Documents\/economic\/conf\/great-recovery-2016\/Alan-B-Krueger.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Were it not for the drug issue, said Mr. Krueger, who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, workers trapped in low-wage jobs might be able to secure better-paying, skilled blue-collar positions and a toehold in the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0NELSON D. SCHWARTZJULY 24, 2017 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio \u2014 Just a few miles from where President Trump will address his blue-collar base here Tuesday night, exactly the kind of middle-class factory jobs he has vowed to bring back from overseas are going begging. It\u2019s not that local workers lack the skills for these positions, many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}