"Twenty years ago, Rocky Mountain ski resorts recruited heavily in the Midwest, reasoning that young people from Minnesota and Iowa were more polite than New Yorkers and more likely to show up for work than Californians," the Arizona Republic writes. Now, most resorts are staffed by foreign workers. "'We're trying to perform this five-star service level and the employable in the U.S. that are out of work just don't really fit that standard,' said Rich Jensen, recruiting manager at Deer Valley. 'Not that you don't get any good U.S. applicants, but you get a lot of really quality kids from out of the country.'"