There is no major labor shortage but there are a lot of able bodied Americans who can’t pull their damn pants up or pass a drug test.
Um...any mention of 3rd worlders in the labor market?
Oh, and welgare???
There’s also no shortage of off-shore remote support either. Seems I can’t call a help line for any company anymore without needing a translator. Even chat helps are about impossible to understand...
And I thought that robots and AI were about to displace millions of US workers?
Also, we have more than enough unskilled, uneducated, low IQ people in the US, the last thing we need is more of those.
I think most immigration should be shut down with a small number allowed in purely on merit.
lay to waste a Wall Street Journal article pointing to “historic, severe shortages” of labor.
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The Cheap Labor Express does not want to be shut down.
The WSJ is their mouthpiece.
Right now, there are a number of people who are comfortable living off of Welfare, Food Stamps, Obamacare, Obamaphones and everything else that the government hands out. A lot of that was there before Obama but he loosened up the criteria to get it and massively expanded it — especially when it came to Food Stamps and SSI disability claims. If Trump is a able to roll that back, then a lot more people will work.
We live in a crazy world where we import illegals from Latin America to do the low / workforce entry level jobs but pay generous Welfare so that people are dis-incentivized to take those jobs. We need to get back to the day when everyone worked and government relief was for those who truly can’t work — the elderly and people who are totally disabled.
A $10 an hour wage is a job and I applaud all who work for their own living.
It’s 400 a week and 1600 a month and about 20000 a year. Anyone who thinks it’s easy to live on that should try it. It’s possible but very hard if you figure housing alone will take about 500 a month of it just about anyplace.
So, a lot of folks look at the difficulty of the job compared to $10 an hour. Hard physical at 10...no. Repetitive, not physical, yes. And they continue to wait for something better.
So, hard physical labor jobs expecting takers at low wages are playing the illegals under the table game. Just my opinion.
Same companies/groups that are pushing for an increase on H1b s, perhaps? As in "we're letting you go, but if you want your severance, you need to train your H1b replacement"?
There are jobs that exist at lower wages that cease to exist at higher wages. Example, you might pay $7/hr to have your grass cut but at $15/hr you will do it yourself or let it go to seed.
We have plenty of lower wage workers but unfortunately their employer is Welfare and the job is easy. Hard to compete against Uncle Sugar in the lower wage part of the economy.
There is a shortage of skilled workers but wages won’t make a difference in the short term because the people with the needed skills don’t exist.