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Excellent article! Young people have been taught that STEM is the be-all, end-all for humans to succeed in life. Even when I was in school, people looked down on people pursuing "the trades." We need a LOT more people like Mike Rowe to talk some sense into them.

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Dec 6, 2022Liked by Dear Rest Of America

Excellent Post

Also Worth Reading: https://jobs.cybertecz.in/

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Jul 7, 2022·edited Jul 7, 2022Liked by Dear Rest Of America

Great article! My biggest concern with federal infrastructure legislation, like the IIJA, is not that it improves infrastructure. Rather, that it is an egregious overstep by the federal government. Nearly all infrastructure spending needs to be done at the state level.

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I’ve never even considered this before, but it certainly is concerning, now that you’ve laid it out. Tying the infrastructure into the act of building America is true and makes sense, but it’s also brilliant. Makes you ‘feel’ the impact in the gut and hopefully can be used to inspire young people to pursue these trades. Also, the statistics and information was great. I’m sure it took a LONG time to pull all that together but we got to benefit from your work with a crash course on everything from how dollars are spent to some of the congressional oversight. Thank you for providing such excellent and insightful content!

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