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He gets benefits, including a pension, from employers at the job sites where he is training. And he is earning $28.36 an hour, or more than $50,000 a year

Finding a qualified contractor to perform repairs can be challenging because of a widespread shortage of skilled tradespeople.

Rather than being a great leveler, bringing both the insanely rich, middle class, and poor to their collective knees, the Great Recession just exacerbated the existing inequality, even as we recover from it.