Posted on 07/05/2022 3:10:04 AM PDT by LouAvul
The toll the labor shortage is taking on the U.S. economy isn't getting better. There's a partial solution that's got bipartisan support but hardly any momentum behind it: allow more migrants into the country.
According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are about twice as many open jobs as there are people looking for work. This has employers competing for staff, often with higher wages. Higher labor costs often get passed onto customers, contributing to the highest inflation in four decades.
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Stop making it more appealing to stay home on unemployment and this problem will fix itself.
That’s true but then the U. S. would not become a third world country. that’s their goal.
The "GOP" no longer exists. It exited about the time Reagan left the White House.
Now we have the GOPe. And, the GOPe definitely wants crimigrants. It's the "cheap labor express."
No, it exposes the need for lower-end workers to get pay increases apace with the real rate of inflation.
Agreed. We’re early in this process. Just at the consumer is tapped out phase. Next is the debt default phase, then job losses. Also a tidbit I read recently which sounded reasonable is the JOLTs job openings number is skewed by remote job openings. For a remote job, employers will list the same job in multiple cities, but it is truly just one position.
Probably. Those Sinclair news media executives are known for their perverted sex crimes.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/sinclair-broadcast-groups-executive-chairman-was-arrested-for-unnatural-and-perverted-sex-with-sex-worker/
“The “GOP” no longer exists. It exited about the time Reagan left the White House”
Whatever, but ther “platform” that was ascribed to “some freepers” is wrong. No freeper wants illegal immigration.
Build the wall and then only allow people in that have jobs or job offers.
“..allow more migrants into the country. ..”
No, no and no!!!! Get people off the federal dole and onto a payroll!
There dozens of better solutions than more immigration. Here’s one of them. Pay for US citizens travel and moving expenses over the next year to move where the work is. Most companies wont pay unless it is up to certain salary ranges. If companies or government did a 1 year incentive of covering moving expenses, more families would be willing to move where the work is.
Yup...my grandson’s girlfriend is trying to get into nursing school. It’s near impossible. (But, hmmm, maybe it’s because she is Asian?)
https://brownstone.org/articles/stop-blaming-workers-for-the-labor-shortage/
Maybe some people don’t want to work those “non-essential” jobs anymore where they get kicked to the curb due to a Plandemic. Restaurants can’t find help? Gee, I wonder why?
Ping
.......”the real problem - the unskilled”........
That’s a very good point....recalling Trump wanting to bring back “shop” etc. to schools for training those who would do better working with their hands than sitting behind a computer in an office.
I agree entirely. Further, all grants and funding should go to US citizens first, and ONLY go to non-citizens if there are no qualified US applicants. And, no grant money/government funding should go to hire non-citizens unless there are no qualified US applicants.
Tulsa’s own, good old channel 8. Like the Tulsa World, both fortresses of liberal spew. In the same page with this article that does not appear is the petition for recreational pot legalization. The medical pot and growing have been so successful, not. Both have turned the state into a bigger mess than it has been and made it pot grower to the world.
But more and more the jobs for people without little education are being automated.
Think about how many people used to work in the big factories, like car factories, compared to now. Or how few people now work in agriculture compared to before. There used to be plenty of work for people with little education, and they even paid enough for them to support their families. That went the way of the Dodo Bird.
You too? My degree is nearly 50 years old, but it has served me well since graduation. I had the same professor my last 3 years in college, and he was a genius, teaching the theory behind every situation, without using numbers.
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