#workforce-shortage

#workforce-shortage

But at the city's only free, in-person addiction and recovery counseling certification program, housed at City College, there are waitlists for nearly every class. Graduates of the program can take an exam to become state-certified substance use disorder counselors - the exact people Lurie says San Francisco needs - but City College isn't pumping out a battalion of counselors. Why not? Money, and a dearth of classes.

That reality hit hard at the Energy & Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh last month, hosted by Senator Dave McCormick, Carnegie Mellon President Farnam Jahanian, and a remarkable roster of business executives, industry leaders, and federal cabinet secretaries. Pennsylvania sits at the center of this future-with the Marcellus Shale, leading universities, and advanced manufacturing hubs powering some of the nation's most ambitious energy projects.

The country is experiencing an acute shortage of planning professionals, which is hindering construction progress and contributing to growing workloads and burnout among existing planners.

The government is kicking us while we're already down. For years, the sector has been propping itself up with dwindling resources, rising costs, and mounting vacancies.

"I leave anywhere between 7 and 7:30 in the morning, and even on non-trial days, I get home at 6:30, 7 o'clock at night. So it's about a 12-hour day for me."