THIRTY ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR

Lovely article in the New York Times about how companies would love to hire people, but they're all too stupid. Perhaps the problem is you want highly skilled workers but you want to pay them crap, or you aren't willing to pay to train them.

Here in this suburb of Cleveland, supervisors at Ben Venue Laboratories, a contract drug maker for pharmaceutical companies, have reviewed 3,600 job applications this year and found only 47 people to hire at $13 to $15 an hour, or about $31,000 a year.