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fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago
US news

ICE is sending a chill through the construction industry

Immigration enforcement is worsening a preexisting construction labor shortage, slowing projects, raising costs, and making workers fearful, limiting contractors' ability to hire and expand.
fromFortune
2 months ago
US politics

Alabama builders rethink deportations as raids disappear hundreds of their 'God-fearing, family-oriented' immigrant workers | Fortune

Immigration raids on construction workers in Alabama are intensifying labor shortages, disrupting projects, raising costs, and threatening regional economic prosperity.
fromFortune
2 months ago
US politics

Alabama builders rethink deportations as raids disappear hundreds of their 'God-fearing, family-oriented' immigrant workers | Fortune

fromFast Company
4 months ago

They helped make Waymo go. Now they're building AI-powered robots to solve America's labor crisis

I saw the powerful potential of applying modern ML approaches we developed at Waymo to construction. This is a problem you could not solve without the modern approaches we saw to be so effective, and helped deploy, in transportation, so it felt like a huge opportunity to address this critical need.
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