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Why Revolution Workshop matters 

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  • ​Poverty/Low income impacts 1 in 2 households in Chicago*
  • Apprentice-level carpenters starting wage = $15-$17/hr
  • Revolution Workshop is providing a model that Chicago has never seen: fusing a comprehensive carpentry and design workforce development model with a social enterprise 
  • Skilled Trades employers have not been able to find enough good help
     *   Heartland Alliance Report on Illinois Poverty  March 2017

Skilled Trades Labor Shortage


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  • ​For the seventh consecutive year, the 2017 Manpower talent shortage employer survey lists the skilled trades as the hardest jobs to fill in the United States.
  • Nearly 40% of the Chicago metro building construction workforce was lost after 2008, yet demand for building in 2017 continues to grow for both residential and commercial projects.* 
  • There is an aging workforce with more than half of skilled tradesmen over 45 years old.** 
  • A building renaissance is under way, as the last big building boom happened during the Eisenhower administration. Our nation’s infrastructure needs to be rebuilt.

* Chicago Tribune May 31, 2016 “Construction contractors warn of a labor shortage as building booms”
**EMSI, 2012

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3410 W. Lake Street Chicago, IL  60624 
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