smeg · @smeg
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What some call an economywide labor shortage, Groshen argues, is more properly seen as a failure by employers to offer high enough pay to get workers off the sidelines.

Wave of boomer retirements could mean long-term labor shortages
marketplace.org/2023/08/31/lab

#economics #Laborshortage #labor #economiccollapse #demographics

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Tina M Casey · @Casey
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Philip Nel · @philnel
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"Trump, covid slowed down immigration. Now employers can’t find workers. Economists estimate that ‘two years of lost immigration’ is responsible for close to half of the 3.5 million workers missing from the labor force."
Glad to see the Washington Post covering a main reason behind the : Anti-immigration policies!
washingtonpost.com/business/20

#Laborshortage

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