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There’s No Such Thing as a Low-Skill Worker The label flattens workers to a single attribute, ignoring the capacities they have and devaluing the work they do. 6:30 AM ET Getty Recently, I was mesmerized by a prep cook. At a strip-mall Korean restaurant, I caught a glimpse of the kitchen and stood dumbfounded for a few minutes, watching a guy slicing garnishes, expending half the energy I would if I were doing the same at home and at twice the speed. The economy of his cooking was magnetic. He moved so little, but did so much. Being a prep cook is hard, low-wage, and essential work, as the ...

Courtesy of Claudia Scritchfield Child and Migrant Services used to host weekly dinners for workers, but due to COVID-19 now makes about 150 free meals every week that it delivers to workers or makes available for pickup. Last March, Mesa County was still bracing for impact.  Cases of COVID-19 had started to spark in resort communities and along the Front Range, but this rural swath of the Western Slope was largely untouched.  Within months, however, it would have one of the highest coronavirus infection rates in Colorado.  Maria Frausto remembers the emotional toll that took on local migr...

Thursday, March 4, 2021 The gap between jobs needing to be filled and the skilled talent pool capable of filling them continues to grow wider in many industries, particularly in the U.S. manufacturing industry. The ability to retain labor from abroad is essential to closing this gap, helping to replace an aging workforce, and infusing high skills into the market — boosting innovation and technological change, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s 2016  Since 2020, and following former President Donald Trump’s immigration actions on the he...

Colorado State Capitol, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Olivia began babysitting as a teenager to earn extra money for her family. Now in her 30s, she recently earned an early childhood education credential and dreams of starting a licensed child care business in her home. But that won’t happen under current Colorado law. Olivia is an undocumented immigrant; she came to the U.S. at 10 years old and is now trying to become a citizen. She asked Colorado Public Radio News to only use her middle name out of fear her participation in a story could negatively affect her citizenship application.  “We a...

Rantz: Dems push unemployment for illegal immigrants, try skirting federal govt. Sen. Rebecca Saldaña and Sen. Karen Keiser. While there are still thousands of Washington residents missing unemployment checks, Washington Democrats are pushing legislation to establish a $350,000,000 unemployment program for illegal immigrants. They’re even trying to avoid the “very irritating” federal government from taking notice. But lawmakers don’t know who would fund the program. They acknowledge employers can’t pay premiums on employees they hired illegally. That means, if passed, taxpayers co...