The point is we offer a job that requires no skills for a wage a single or small family can live off here with medical dental and vision coverage and we still can’t find people willing to take the job because their is such an abundance of higher paying jobs available here in our local area with companies willing to train unskilled individuals. In anything close to a recession unemployment is usually rampant in this town! I can remember times when machinists with college degrees and twenty years of experience were begging to work for peanuts just to keep their families out of bankruptcy and their were no jobs to be had around here. The local economy is the best I’ve ever seen it. They’ve got ads on TV here offering people without a commercial drivers license thousand dollar signing bonuses to come get trained to be a school bus driver for $10/Hr. + 401K Etc. Who ever heard of an unlicensed school bus driver in Podunk Kansas being offered a signing bonus? I’m telling you the job market hasn’t been this good before for workers here.
In the meantime, I'll bet Wichita has a few (maybe more) high school and college students for whom $12 an hour would provide an acceptable incentive to apply, and it might provide enough income for them to pay for books, tuition, and an occasional tank of gas. If two or three of them work together, they might be able to swing a car payment, apartment, and groceries with that income.
The bottom line is that you get what you pay for -- sometimes. What you are offering is not a career for a lifetime, but it sounds like honest work for a short-term job, probably with different shifts.
You could do yourself and your community a big favor by recruiting students. Some of them might move on to something better, but if training can be done quickly (and from your description, it sounds possible) you can replace them with new student hires rather quickly.
I'll bet you can even find out-of-work IT people in your area who desperately need a job, any job, and they generally aren't drunks and druggies. They just need a job. Of course, you would have to put up with higher IQs and education than your own, and might hear occasional hints about process improvement, but that shouldn't deter you from hiring them. You could get the work done that you need, and it would help them survive. They might leave someday also, but you could find more.