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Middle America has an employment problem. But while Donald Trump tries his hardest to bring back the coal industry and bemoan the outsourcing of America’s industrial labor, there are a huge number of low-skill, high-pay manufacturing jobs sitting vacant because drug tests weed out most of the viable candidates, and employers are largely unwilling to change their zero tolerance policies.
According to a report from the New York Times, one manufacturing company, Columbiana Boiler based out of Columbiana, Ohio is so understaffed that they have purchase orders unable to be fulfilled, with the leftover work being done by the same foreign competitors that Trump and his “made in America” Republicans have spent their breath bashing.
“Our main competitor in Germany can get things done more quickly because they have a better labor pool,” Michael J. Sherwin, chief executive of the manufacturing company, said. “We are always looking for people and have standard ads at all times, but at least 25 percent fail the drug tests.”
Ohio is in the midst of the same opioid crisis causing havoc across the nation, costing the country millions of dollars of health care and lost…
