Brandon Dew and Will Kocher: Utah must do more to match available labor with business needs.
Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune The giant stack can be seen from inside the Intermountain Power Plant near Delta, Utah, April 12, 2013.Utah is in the middle of a workforce crisis. We can use new resources coming into our state from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and Inflation Reduction Act to solve it.
On one side, we have too many Utahns who are trapped in low-wage work. They can find jobs in our hot economy, but not ones that are paying the bills in our hot housing market. We see this in the surging demand for food pantries, the rise in child hunger, and the explosion of homelessness on our streets.
All of these exciting upgrades are possible with the $3.4 billion in federal funds coming to Utah thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act championed by Sen. Mitt Romney, the Inflation Reduction Act and contributions from our overflowing state coffers. But without the skilled workers to take on these ambitious projects, we cannot realize this potential.
A coalition of labor, trades, environmental clean energy and community groups from across the state is coming together under the banner of United Today, Stronger Tomorrow to make sure that the billions of federal dollars coming to Utah are used to ensure a strong, prosperous, equitable and sustainable future for our communities in-state.
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