Worker Shortage Crisis Deepening

We are going to see rampant inflation if this continues. It is getting double hit with artificial injection of printed money and artificial rise in cost of labor.

Rise is base low wage doesn't mean anything if the value of the dollar drops.

 

I do not agree it is an artificial rise in cost of labor.

 

It is not just a matter of getting more sitting at home. Some of these people can't go back to work because their children's schools are still on remote or hybrid schedules.

Percentage of Students Learning in Remote or Hybrid Classes Drops Amid Reopenings

https://www.usnews.com/news/educati...emote-or-hybrid-classes-drops-amid-reopenings

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Or, they now have to care for elderly parents negatively impacted by COVID and/or the vaccine.

Balancing Work and Elder Care Through the Coronavirus Crisis

https://hbr.org/2020/03/balancing-work-and-elder-care-through-the-coronavirus-crisis

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Others lost their family members who may have been their help with childcare in order to return to work.

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Some are facing eviction. Some are already homeless living in their vehicles, storage lockers and in shelters.

Evicted And Homeless Due To Pandemic — 'I Literally Had To Sleep In My Car'

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/30/9816...o-pandemic-i-literally-had-to-sleep-in-my-car

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Some have had their vehicles repossessed.

Auto Repossessions Likely to Rise in 2021 as COVID-19 Pandemic Goes On

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34813379/auto-repossessions-predicted-up-2021/

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Basically, COVID has changed the world. Our "new normal" is here to stay (for a long while anyway) and will take years to clean up.

 

You're right. I forgot about the other factors preventing people from getting back to work.

 

worker shortage means higher wages per the right... right?

 

You can’t just raise the price because it costs you more now. People have to be willing to pay if, and your competition can always undercut you.

 

The longer the left makes this country socialist dependent, the more it destroys our nation. Keep voting for those Dems and lets see how far this country can fall. This is a reminder for conservatives and centrists that felt compelled to vote Democrat in the last election, there are consequences to your actions.

 

And based upon the science that the left was claiming to want to follow, there is no reason that remote learning should still be in place. We now have empirical data that shows that the mortality rate for youths is nearly zero and every teacher should be fully inoculated at this point.

 

Let’s remember who started mailing out checks and boosting UI payments....and it wasn’t dems.

 

Kids can still bring home the virus and kill their trumpy grandpa who refuses to get the shot. But yah it’s basically over, of course so is the school year here.

 

Very much really!!!!!

You tell me why it's a problem for people to not take jobs because they would not be able to make a living from it?

If you offer $3 an hour, and then whine because nobody takes the job you offer... you're the one with the problem. Same as if you offer $5 an hour. What difference does it make if it's $8 an hour? Or $10 an hour.... None of those is a living wage.

If you offer $15 an hour you make sure your workers are making more than they would with unemployment. And that is fair for ANY job.

 

Time and place. Time passed before this latest buy off by the Dems.

 

Women with young children are having a really hard time trying to find affordable safe care givers for their children, so that they can return to the workforce

 

Just like feeding wild bears makes them better hunters! /sarcasm

 

Sigh....you totally missed the point.

Right now, in a shortage of willing workers, companies can pay more and get workers. If there was an actual shortage of workers, it would not matter how much a company could pay if there is nobody to give it to.

 

So? Right now companies are forced to pay a living wage. When there is no shortage of workers they should STILL need to pay a living wage.

I am not missing the point one bit. In a developed country (especially in the richest country in the world) EVERYBODY who works a full time job should make a living wage, without needing to work 2 or 3 jobs. If a company can't compete with unemployment benefits, that company should not be in business.

Today most people can start working at $15 an hour here n Florida. It was difficult to get a job for even $8 an hour up to about a year ago. You have yet to explain what is wrong with that.

 

I never said it was wrong. All I have done is explain the difference between a willing worker shortage and an actual worker shortage.
But the difference is beyond you

 

Yeah, science evades you.. You go girl...

 

They don't get it unless they have a kid still in school. They tried re-opening several schools and had to shut them down almost immediately due to COVID outbreaks. The scariest part is a person can be totally asymptomatic and still pass it to someone else. They could easily bring it back home and infect their parents and grandparents. There is less risk once vaccinated but it's still possible to catch it and transmit it. It's a logistical nightmare.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sch...me..69i57.14347j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

What country do you live in where the president can write checks without congress voting on it? You know who controlled Congress when those first checks were passed? And at the time last year we were in the middle of the pandemic. NOT anymore. And the states with the worst issues are BLUE STATES who stayed locked down for months longer than they needed to.

Seriously, how intellectually dishonest can you be?

 

Who made sure his signature was on everyone of them and a letter sent to everyone saying they got the money thanks to him?

 

So kids can’t infect other people?

 

Nothing happens without the presidents signature and all that was bipartisan. Dems had congress but gop had the senate and WH. I know Trump screwed all that up, but I’m sure you remember.

 

Article in todays news about shortage of truck drivers forcing company's to pay 75% higher starting salaries than they were paying in 2019 just to attract job applicants. And they still are having trouble getting new drivers.

 

What would help is blue states following CDC guidelines and reopening their states economies. Biden needs to incentivize
RE employment, insread of UN employment too. Right on the heels of this US CoC report on the shortage, the agency began lobbying for more foreign worker visas. Presumably because they understand the need to reopen the economy, and save businesses that face closure due to lack of labor. That's drastic, and it's a really good indication just how tone deaf Biden is, because I'm sure the Chamber of Commerce lobbied Biden to reopen and nix subsidies before they resorted to that.