"The work pool is thin"

Nancy Lofholm reports in the Denver Post that construction firms in Colorado are unable to complete projects because they cannot find skilled workers. Nationally 22% of construction jobs are filled by illegal immigrants. Because those mean, nasty Republicans are holding up immigration reform, "the work pool is thin." Three fourths of construction crews nationally are reporting shortages of skilled workers.

Lofholm writes,

In the housing construction industry it is widely known that some contractors hire workers without legal status to fill the worker shortage or to cut costs. Contractors can pay these immigrant workers less and not pay benefits for them.

But in the road- and bridge-building industry, and on any other projects with government contracts, contractors are required to go through the federal E-Verify system that weeds out workers with false documents. That puts those companies in more of a bind when the availability of domestic workers or immigrant workers with green cards are stretched too thin.

The trade groups are attempting to turn that around by attracting more young (American) people to the construction trades. They are promoting the fact that the jobs pay well enough for a worker to support a family and that they are generally stable jobs.

Family? Wouldn't that require both a man and a woman? Wouldn't it also require the man and woman keeping their baby, rather than aborting it?