There’s a growing economic crisis in the United States that has our industry in its sights. It doesn’t involve subprime mortgages or a volatile stock market, rather it relates to an essential part of every one of our businesses. There is a widening gap in our country between the number of jobs requiring skilled and semiskilled workers and the number of individuals qualified for those positions. Every operator in our industry can relate to this issue, just as millions of owners in other industries do as well. 
 
The dark cloud that is the skills gap in the ...