[starfish923]

Now, workers with more options in some places are unwilling to take $12-an-hour jobs.
Record low unemployment across parts of the West has created tough working conditions for business owners, who in places are being forced to boost wages or be creative to fill their jobs.

American workers seem to be spoiled a bit, don't they?

For the Welfarers-for-life, why work at all when the government takes care of them? There are generations of welfare lifers.

The answer is that the wages have to be high enough to lure workers to the snow country OR those business owners will have to move to where the weather is better.

Is there another answer that's practical?

[proxy_user]

I don’t think that’s what the sentence meant.

They won’t take $12 an hour jobs, because they can get a higher salary somewhere else.

[TheBattman]

Well - I am wondering - even at 2.x % unemployment - that means SOMEONE is drawing an unemployment check...and probably other government benefits.

It is WAY PAST time for a crackdown on government handout recipients - if you don’t at least TRY to support yourself with the jobs that are available. Heck - I don’t even mind helping folks who cannot pay for basics with the jobs available. But as Rush is fond of saying - if you take a low paying job and prove yourself, you don’t stay in such low-paying jobs.

But this is lost on too many lazy, “I want a high paying-cushy job” to start off with people. AS long as there are jobs available and people on unemployment lists, government checks should be few and far between - thus there should be a lower tax burden, thus more money in the economy to fuel higher wages and investment, and so on...

But I guess I am just a mean old “conservative”...

[swatbuznik]

Yeah, I think the answer is to cut the welfare programs and that’ll force the leeches out to take up those jobs whether they want ‘em or not.

[KeyLargo]

More bull crap from the left and big business that want more illegal alien slave labor.

[JasonC]

How spoiled? The average US worker makes $38000 a year, which is $19 a hour. Offer half the average wage for a crappy job, and why should you expect lots of takers? Kids starting out need such positions, sure. But most of us have much better things to do.

Incidentally, when I look at Craigslist for Wyoming, scads of wonderful positions are not the first impression. Lousy entry level, cold calling, work at home data entry, scams, and a few mid range positions offering under 50K for a perfectly tailored candidate in an obscure field - that's what I see.

Oh, and if instead you can translate Arabic, $175,000.

[Pining_4_TX]

Yes, cutting out the damn taxes they take out of a paycheck would help tremendously. Even if you don’t pay income taxes, you get hit with all that FICA crap.

[Oberon]

Now, workers with more options in some places are unwilling to take $12-an-hour jobs. Record low unemployment across parts of the West has created tough working conditions for business owners, who in places are being forced to boost wages or be creative to fill their jobs.

Free market in action, bub. The trick is figuring out how to make it work for you.