Raise wages.
I started a part time job came out of retirement because EVERYTHING is so damned expensive I just could not do it anymore, they started me at $18.00 an hour I was SHOCKED but they can’t get staff members!! I have to say I work with young people and I can’t find them through my entire shift, I don’t know where they go BUT they are NOT working!!!
Raising wages has been done and it did not work.
Eliminate welfare and other subsidies and make those with “education” loans start paying. Then, the price mechanism will find the honest level of wages. Employers can’t compete for workers with higher wages when the government makes it too easy for people to stay unemployed through “benefits”. All that happens is employers’ products and services start becoming uncompetitively priced and profit margins get squeezed to the point of there being little reason to be in business.
Of course, increasing numbers of younger Americans are unemployable because the government schools are vomiting out hordes of virtually illiterate “graduates” with a profound sense of entitlement and no work ethic.
How much should wages be? Just asking because FL construction wages min $22 per hour, plus overtime. How much should they be? How much you able to pay for a roof?
Labor shortages in construction for years, well before Covid.
Hard work, pampered American born kids don’t want to work that hard for money, with or without marketable skills or an education.