[Soul of the South]

“Close to 14 million Americans say they want to work but cannot find a job”

There is a tremendous shortage of truckers. Businesses all over my town in NC have “help wanted” signs out. Military recruiters are struggling filling quotas. Every tradesperson I know (plumber, carpenter, HVAC, electrical) says it is impossible to find good people willing to work.

Perhaps 14 million Americans cannot find a “position”. There are plenty of jobs for those who want to work.

[gbscott]

I talked to a Dollar General store locally and he said that every time the feds send out a check he has someone quit. Biden has set the stage for the collapse of the economy. And the feds and doing all they can to discourage the ordinary person from working.

[Afterguard]

There are NOW HIRING signs all over out town in NE Florida but nobody wants to work for the pay business can afford. A couple of friends who are mid-managers, one at a restaurant and another at a small HVAC company tell us that they cannot even get applicants to come in to apply. Why should they go to work if they can make more money sitting on the couch at home because the Biteme administration pays them more for not working.

This has go to end. Why are no onservative Republicans raising hell about this? (Oh, I forgot, there are no conservative R’s)

[Alberta's Child]

I think there’s a lot of truth to what you said there. Let’s leave truck drivers aside because the nature of that particular job and the business model for the industry makes it unique. Aside from that, I’d say we are seeing a “perfect storm” of three factors at work here:

1. Many unskilled Americans are either incapable of holding a job, or are getting paid more to stay unemployed than they’d get paid to work.

2. There aren’t enough trained workers to fill the skilled blue-collar jobs.

3. We have a bloated layer of mid-range professional/clerical/managerial types who probably make up a large portion of those who were laid off in the last year and haven’t been rehired. They remain unemployed simply because they won’t work in low-skill jobs in #1 and don’t have the skills to work in the jobs in #2.

[Starcitizen]

There is a tremendous shortage of truckers. Businesses all over my town in NC have “help wanted” signs out. Military recruiters are struggling filling quotas. Every tradesperson I know (plumber, carpenter, HVAC, electrical) says it is impossible to find good people willing to work.
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Most of those remaining on unemployment are skilled career-level blue-collar and white-collar workers in industries still shut down. Like travel, tourism, events, concerts, conventions etc.

The unskilled blue and white-collar workers have been mostly back to work

Most of the jobs offered are of the unskilled starter wage jobs

Trades? That will take years to make a decent living.
Military? Real useful for those in their 30s and up
Truck Drivers? The $1600 per month training wages for the first few months and the $3000 to $5000 cost of a CDL school is a real downer.