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Pennsylvania, is an american company that need workers, but as has trouble filling the jobs because local residents are failing drug tests. >> i would say we probably had 20% every time we run a random test. 20% of the people are failing. >> that is pretty high. >> it's pretty high. we are seeing positive tests anywhere from marijuana through amphetamines right through crystal meth and heroin. >> reporter: it's not just here. percent of people in the u.s. testing positive for drugs has increased steadily the last three years. reaching the highest level in a decade. so how many people here are ...

P.m. eastern time today. >> why some businesses here in the u.s. are now hiring refuges as opposed to some americans. >> the immigrant work force here has filled on avoid that we have had that we were unable to fill with our local labor pool that we were drawing from. also, a mudslide kills more than 200 people in colombia. we will take to the desperate search right now to find hundreds who are still missing. various: (shouting) heigh! ho! ( ♪ ) it's off to work we go! woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. and each job created by the ene...

Pennsylvania, an american company that needs workers but had trouble filling the jobs because local residents are failing drug tests. >> i wouldn't say we probably had 20% every time we run a random test. 20% of the people are failing. >> that's pretty high. >> yeah, it's pretty high w we're seeing positive tests anywhere from marijuana to amphetamines through crystal meth and heroin. >> it's not just here, the percent of employees in the u.s. testing positive for drugs has increased steadily over the last three years, reaching the highest level in a decade. >> so how many people are refugees?...

Pennsylvania is an american company that needs workers, but has had trouble filling the jobs because american workers are failing drug tests. >> 20% of people are failing. >> that's pretty high. >> we're seeing positive from marijuana and heroin. >> employees testing positive for drugs has increased steadily over the past few years, reaching the highest level in a decade. >> how many people here are refugees? >> almost everybody that you're seeing here. >> at sterling, refugees have become a hiring solution to the drug problem. >> the immigrant workforce that's here has filled a void that we h...

Growth in the country. there are a number of stoies to told. one or two caveats concern the president but it shouldn't prevent him from bragging about what he's accomplished. the labor participation rate about unemployment is down. the wage growth is a little down. if i were president i would ask whomever wrote -- if you wrote that intro i would take it and tout and trumpet it around the country. i would add one thing to it. the next part of the growth effort is to ensure we do what ed rendells has been talking about for years. rebuilding america. strengthening our infrastructure. we have to c...