Pocket Wisdom Insights (PWI) invites you to explore the following\u00a0Co-Lab Blog<\/strong>.<\/em> A slew of reports finds a fresh reason for the chronic inability of American companies to fill skilled jobs: not a lack of skills, and hence a training-and-education crisis, but a surfeit of drug abuse, per the NYT's Nelson Schwartz.<\/strong> Simply put, prime-working age Americans without a college diploma are often too drugged-out to get the best jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n Opioids remain at high levels, but the surge in drug use is now heroin and the powerful contaminant fentanyl.<\/p>\n The reports suggest a circularity to the crisis in America's rust and manufacturing belts: the loss of jobs and wage stagnation has led to widespread disaffection, alienation and drug abuse; and drug abuse has led to joblessness, hopelessness and disaffection.<\/p>\n But the numbers are all over the map. Some employers and economists say up to half of job applicants do not clear drug tests; others say it is 25%. In the chart above, Indeed economist Jed Kolko, using data from the U.S. Current Population Survey, found that 5.6% to 5.7% of working-age adults didn't work last year because of illness or disability, an unknown percentage of which were because of drug use.<\/strong><\/p>\n [..]<\/p>\n ...the anecdotal and economic evidence is compelling.<\/p>\n Source: Axios<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Opening Insights Pocket Wisdom Insights (PWI) invites you to explore the following\u00a0Co-Lab Blog. This blog features parts of an \u00a0insightful article featured outside of the\u00a0PWI\u00a0Co-Lab, written by Steve LeVine on June 30th, 2017, published by\u00a0Axios. [...]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,63,81,91,95,49,115,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emod-blog","category-customer-care-co-lab-blogs","category-discovery-co-lab-blogs","category-finance-co-lab-blogs","category-human-resources-co-lab-blogs","category-leadership-co-lab-blogs","category-patient-doctor-health-co-lab-blogs","category-recovery-co-lab-blogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/pills-medicine-tablets-depending-161641.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13546"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16890,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions\/16890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n This blog features parts of an \u00a0insightful article featured outside of the\u00a0PWI\u00a0Co-Lab,<\/strong><\/em>
\n written by Steve LeVine<\/strong> on June 30th, 2017, published by\u00a0Axios<\/a>.<\/em>
\n We have republished this content in respect of the author\u2019s vision, message and research.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nInformational Insights<\/h2>\n
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Possibilities for Consideration<\/h2>\n
Take a moment and examine\u2026<\/h3>\n
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Add Your Insight<\/h2>\n
\nBeing willing is not enough; we must do.
\n<\/em>LEONARDO DA VINCI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"