CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte high school students training for tomorrow's workforce are building homes in the community today.
Students from Olympic High School are working with Habitat for Humanity to build a home for a family in need.
It's a trade school program with an immediate impact on the community.
Students are using real-life blueprints and construction equipment to build a real-life house.
Some students intend to use this hands-on training from Olympic High School to immediately enter the workforce after school.
"In my future, I don't really see college life. Learning a trade is a lot easier, a lot more fun for me," said Alexander Kirk. "I feel this is the better way for me to go personally."
U.S. employers added a solid 128,000 jobs in October.
The Labor Department says the unemployment rate ticked up from 3.5% to 3.6%, still near a five-decade low. For the second straight month, average hourly wages rose 3% from a year ago.
Still, hiring has slowed this year. Gains averaged just 167,000 in the past 10 months, down from a monthly average of 223,000 in 2018, according to Labor Department figures.
According to numbers from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released earlier in 2019, employers plan to hire 10.7 percent more Class of 2019 college graduates than they did from the Class of 2018 for positions in the U.S.
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