(The Daily Reporter) –The level of minority participation in construction apprenticeships is frustrating the leaders of the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP. But members of the industry charged with improving participation rates say the high unemployment rate in construction makes it impossible to place any new apprentices. “This is the worst construction recession since the Great Depression,” said Lyle Balistreri, president of the Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council. “I’ve never seen anything this bad, and now people are knocking us because we don’t have enough placements?”
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