The government is reporting that unemployment claims have hit a 2-year high. The Labor Department reported Thursday that new applications filed for unemployment insurance jumped by a seasonally adjusted 38,000 to 407,000 for the week ending March 29. We've heard that the masonry business is slow in other parts of the country and that masons are sitting idle, but when we invite them to Colorado, where there is a plethora of jobs and a shortage of trained masons, they won't come. Why enjoy a paying job and spring & summer in the Rocky Mountains when you can sit at home on your couch and try to survive on unemployment? Go figure.
On a sad note, OSHA will be busy today in Arkansas:
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Three construction workers fell from a work platform that collapsed Wednesday and were presumed dead after falling from a highway bridge into the swollen Arkansas River.
There was no sign of the men for more than an hour after their fall, Little Rock Fire Capt. Jason Weaver said. Divers could not enter the water because the current was too swift
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