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U.S. Government Forecasts Predict Labor Shortage in Construction Industry.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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October 14, 2003
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By Damon Cline, The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 14--Instead of a mall, Herman Cummings hung out at construction sites when he was a teenager.
After school he pushed wheelbarrows, hauled bricks and studied skilled brick masons on the finer points of "buttering" blocks with mortar.
He learned the trade. Then he learned the business. Now he owns his own company, Cummings Construction.
Today, as he looks out over his crew building an addition at Glenn Hills Elementary School, the Soperton, Ga., contractor sees only middle-age men like himself, workers with a skill that few people are interested in learning.
Young ...