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Estevan Almanza has worked in the construction industry for nearly a decade, with his pay increasing from to 22 an hour.Over the past few years, he’s seen this industry struggle to find qualified workers. That has been putting extra stress on him and his crew.“A lot of work on us,” Almanza said. “It’s more tiring, but I guess more hours.”And now, it's more concerning because the impact of this labor shortage is being felt across the country.Associated Builders and Contractors projects the construction industry will need nearly half a million more workers in 2020 and an additional 740,000 more in 2021.This shortage of construction workers could end up costing you.“The laborers, they affect everybody’s lives,” said Zsuzsa Balogh, Ph.D., the program coordinator in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology at Metropolitan State University of Denver.She says the reasons for the shortage range from retirement to construction workers retraining themselves for other industries.With less skilled laborers and more of the qualified workers clocking overtime, Balogh believes that extra cost is passed on to consumers.“You can see the increase of the cost,” she said. “Basically, somewhere that money has to show, and the consumers will be the ones to pay that extra money.”In an attempt to help attract more skilled workers, some contractors are offering improved incentives like health care, 401k options and yearly raises.“It’s as bad as we’ve ever seen,” said Todd Smith, vice president of operations for Lawrence Construction Company. “Very few people are going into this industry.” Smith says this shortage of skilled workers is creating a timeline of concern.“Right now, we’ve had ads out for certain positions for six months and haven’t gotten any responses yet,” he said. Smith believes in addition to the spike in retirements, there’s also fewer construction workers because there’s less vocational training available.“We’ve pushed all of our young people into college which college is great for some people for some people but not for everyone,” Smith said.As companies like Lawrence Construction continue to struggle to find staff, bids keep getting higher.“It’s going to be driving the prices up, because it’s now with the labor shortage, now the people can demand a higher pay,” Smith said.Though construction is hard work, Smith says its can also be very rewarding.“You can drive down a stretch of road and tell you family, ‘I worked on this job’” he said. “And you can do that for many years to come.” 2543

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Court records say an Iowa man made a woman watch the miniseries “Roots" and told her it would make her better understand her racism. Robert Noye is charged in Cedar Rapids with harassment and false imprisonment, 245

CHICAGO, Ill. – Ten years ago, Aja McClanahan didn’t think she’d be living on Chicago’s South Side. It also seemed like her family would be forever be in debt.“It was a mountain that I did not think we could ever tackle,” said McClanahan.Her family didn’t owe just a little bit of money. “It was over 0,000,” said McClanahan. McClanahan says everything started with student loans. That was the bulk of her and her family’s debt.“Between my husband and I, we had tons of student loan debt, ,000 between the two of us,” said McClanahan. “Then another ,000 was a mixture of consumer debt, car notes, credit cards, medical bills and things like that.” But the family decided debt was not going to define them forever.“I remember when I had my first child, my daughter, I knew I wanted to stay home with her but when I ran the numbers…we were like between bills rent, debt repayment, student loans, we cannot make this work,” said McClanahan. She says her family wasn’t budgeting before they put a plan together to pay down debt. "We just spent money as it came in and whatever we spent it on,” said McClanahan. “But with a spending plan we could prioritize what is important to us. So, it helped us look at how we were spending our money. And we kind of cut the fat.”They made sacrifices including a move from the suburbs of Chicago to the inner-city South Side neighborhood of Englewood. They inherited a house from a family member. “The first night we were there, we were like this is the stupidest thing we have ever done,” McClanahan said. "It was so noisy. Just the urban soundscape if you’re not used to it. So, it’s like sirens, barking dogs, people yelling and shouting in the alleys. We were like what have we done?”But they settled in and made it their home without paying a mortgage or rent.After about eight years of strict spending, side hustle and chipping away, they finally paid it all off. "The final balance was ,700 or something like that for a student loan or something like that and I remember making the payment or something like that and remember calling my husband and saying we’re debt free,” said McClanahan. McClanahan now works as a speaker and author trying to help other people conquer debt. "I find that a lot of people become hopeless around the holidays when you’re expected to have money to go out to parties to exchange gifts. For some people, they feel powerless and out of control because they don’t have money,” said McClanahan.While money isn’t everything, McClanahan says it can impact's more than just a bottom line.“I feel like money touches every part of our lives and if you can fix that money thing, you can get back more control,” said McClanahan. 2712

Facebook announced in a blog post on Wednesday that it will begin banning posts that praise and support white nationalism and separatism."It’s clear that these concepts are deeply linked to organized hate groups and have no place on our services.," Facebook said in the blog.Facebook says that posts in support of white supremacy have always been banned under its policy. However, the platform determined that white nationalism and white separatism "cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups" after spending months discussing the matters with academics.While white supremacists believe that white people are superior to people of other races, white nationalists believe that the United States is a "white nation" and that white people should continue to maintain a dominant economic and political dominance in the country. White separatists believe that white people should establish their own states and remove minorities from their communities. In their blog post, Facebook explained that in the past, they had conflated white nationalist and white separatist content with that of other non-hate speech — "things like American pride and Basque separatism," Facebook wrote.Facebook said it would use machine learning in order to quickly remove this kind of hate speech from the platform. They also announced that they will attempt to direct users who search for white supremacist content on the website to resources that help people leave hate groups.For more Facebook's new policy, 1534

During an open forum Thursday night, a candidate seeking a city council seat in Marysville, Michigan said she hopes to keep the town "a white community as much as possible."The comment was delivered by Jean Cramer, one of five candidates running for three open city council seats, in response to a question about attracting foreign-born citizens to Marysville, according to the 390

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