"High paying trade jobs sit empty." Then give them a higher wage, institute better benefits, and/or facilitate more employee training. Oh, and if we're expect

"High paying trade jobs sit empty." Then give them a higher wage, institute better benefits, and/or facilitate more employee training. Oh, and if we're expecting kids to do trade jobs and not attend a 4 year college, then our schools sure as heck better do a good job teaching geometry and algebra as they won't have remedial college courses to fall back on and trades often make use of such skills (especially as mechatronics is increasingly integrated into trades such as carpentry, machining, etc... soon everything).