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Can someone explain why businesses can't find employees?
Vanity | June 22, 2022 | Bort (vanity)

Posted on 06/22/2022 5:48:32 AM PDT by bort

The "help-wanted" sections of newspapers and job sites are overloaded with small businesses begging for employees. Every fast-food restaurant you enter has help-wanted signs. There is an obvious employee shortage going on all around the country. Serious question: What is causing this issue? Gas prices and inflation are through the roof, which would suggest that even dead-beats would be forced to get jobs. Is there some sort of secret COVID payments still going out? I'm at a loss.


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To: gitmo

Special needs children have always remained at home and are not the majority of that 52% still at home.

We have a perfect storm of cultural and economic issues causing this.

Have you looked into special needs villages?

https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/housing/info-2021/parents-creating-communities-for-adult-children-with-special-needs.html


281 posted on 06/23/2022 2:27:36 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: TheWriterTX

My adult son is still at home. He joined my husband in his business and remained at home to save up to buy a house for cash. He bought a fixer upper at the beginning of the pandemic and then the resulting supply chain issues and inflation delayed the fixing up for a year.

They are just now finishing the new siding and after that we start gutting the interior. So he will probably move out this fall.

My youngest daughter and sil are moving in with his parents because their rent is doubling on the first. So they plan to live in the basement for six months and buy a house next January. Which was always their original plan, but the rent doubling would eat up what they are currently saving every month.

I can’t park in my garage because it’s full of everyone’s furniture!

However, I suspect that productive adult children living with parents to achieve a financial goal aren’t the majority of the 52% still living at home or there wouldn’t be a labor shortage.


282 posted on 06/23/2022 2:50:43 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Vermont Lt

You’re saying there are more jobs now than before COVID?

You’re further saying that I should discount the previous question and also discount what I observe locally?

This is not reasonable, FRiend.


283 posted on 06/23/2022 5:21:09 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: bort

Where?

How many?

How much?

Enough to afford the COL?


284 posted on 06/23/2022 5:27:07 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set befre you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: central_va

As an economic libertarian I agree. That’s not really my question. The market is the net result of innumerable factors and, as I’m sure you know, the genius of the market is its ability to boil them all down to price. I just puzzle over what some of the most salient factors are that drove such a sudden change in the price of labor.


285 posted on 06/23/2022 7:17:26 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: dfwgator

Sorry, should have elaborated more. The generous offers were by several LLCs. Market value increased about a third of what I posted which is still too high for not doing anything to the dwelling in a year and a half.


286 posted on 06/28/2022 4:45:28 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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To: Blurp2
I don’t know about anyone else, wondered about this a lot myself, and then after I worked four months earlier this year, I made enough money doing it to take off work until next April... that could explain it. People, oddly enough, don’t actually enjoy work... present company excluded, of course lol

Wait, let me get this straight: You earned enough flipping burgers for four months to kick off until next April?!

Really?!

Did you register for Unemployment Benefits / are you otherwise "on the dole?"

And are you, like, 17 years old, and still living with your folks?

A bold statement like yours demands some sort of explanation.

Regards,

287 posted on 07/13/2022 7:35:19 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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