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Theres a shortage of skilled tradespeople throughout the American economy, and it is a persistent problem that started well before the pandemic. But whats behind that gap and what can be done? Paul Solman reports for our series, "Work Shift", which focuses on navigating the job market in a post-COVID economy. Read the Full Transcript Judy Woodruff: Theres a shortage of skilled tradespeople throughout the U.S. economy, a persistent problem that started well before the pandemic. But, given high u...

If it wasn’t for spending one work shift in a very cold walk-in fridge, Brooklyn Santiago might never have found her career as a hairstylist. More than 20 years ago, Santiago applied for a salon reception job, but didn’t get a response before accepting a winery job Upvalley. “Having spent my first day packaging foie gras in a walk-in fridge that I did not dress for was confirmation that this would not be my path,” Santiago wrote. “After my shift I headed straight to the...

A symbol of friends an icon and not a place of work shift of worship i mean a lot of people in friends are not believers say they do not belong to any church and yet they are affected tonight and outpolled by what is happening because not im is a symbol for friends and it has been so for centuries now its part of our history its a vibe to friendship oh theyre showing that its a vibe to world war one and world war two without being bombed and he was one of the few cathedrals in france which had n...

To help you reduce the amount of the cell phone time. it kept buzzing like midday so i got annoyed with it i deleted it and went back to my ways. >> martha: the new phones will tell you, oh, your careen -- screen time is down. then you stress out if you find out its up. >> you feel like you havent done anything all day because the screen time says eight hours. wow, i spent a whole work shift on -- >> martha: i love at the beginning of the video is her christmas day, the tree behind her and the w...

As you look at the houston pd guys going out. i just want to give a shout out. its important to remember more than a week now law enforcement was on a 24 hour around-the-clock work shift to a 12 under, 12 off. the reality is hundreds of those officers dealing with personal disasters themselves, going home to find out they lost everything. hats off to them for the last eight days. >> thank you so much demographic. a really hard story. thank you for bringing it to us. leland. leland: from our grac...

Can you check what size you have? we are going to get you some sn shoe. send us as many as you can. i hear this every single day, whether its a small local restaurant, coffee shop, to amazon. we get flyers. we get e-mails, phone calls. we need people. >> okay. what do we remember about work shift? >> we usually get someone employed within three days. we have had someone start within one day. thats how fast refuges are able to get impleemployed. >> reporter: we spoke with locals about the struggl...

Opportunity. >> we are going to get you some shoes okay? good luck tomorrow. >> send us as many as you can. i hear this every day, whether its a small local restaurant to amazon. we get flyers. we get e-mails, phone calls, we need people. >> okay. what do you remember about work shift? >> we usually get someone employed within three days. we have had someone start within one day. thats how fast refugees are able to get employed. so they are not taking the jobs. they are filling the gaps. >> we s...

As good a job as i could, and i rationalized to myself that what i did during my off hours, on my weekends, going out for a couple hours, getting drunk, making crack buys, using crack with these, you know, young women who traded sex for crack, was recreational. >> your editor started to get involved in 1991. at one point one of them cooking to rehab? >> thats right the four days before christmas 1991, milton coleman who at the time was the posts ame, assistant managing editor for the metro staff...

Against him? >> voluntary manslaughter. what was he doing in the hours and the days leading into that work shift. but if he was sleep deprived he has cultupability here. the mta installed the safety measures and opted not to install it in both ends of the train. >> and they kept a 90 degree turn as well. >> two police officers are in hot water. apparently the kids were getting rowdy. and the driver pulled over and called police. listen to how the officers decided to handle it.

antigadhafi brigades. human rights watch is calling on the libyan national council to investigate this. conditions in syria are getting too dangerous for the u.s. ambassador. the state department has pulled ambassador robert ford out of syria citing what it calls credible threats against his personal safety. u.s. officials say an armed pro-government mob attack ford an some colleagues in an embassy convoy last month. ford has been an outspoken critic of the syrian governments violent...