America is sometimes a peculiar place where in some areas, like “red” states, that have a disdain for immigrants or “replacements” as they like to call them, suddenly find themselves short of labor and suddenly want new immigrants to come in and do the heavy lifting and hard work needed to keep America running.
Today’s “Case in point” comes from Fox59 in an article entitled, “Business leaders want more immigrants in Indiana to combat labor shortage.”
“Without our partners in the agriculture industry to have enough workforce, it doesn’t matter if we have enough workforce in restaurants because we don’t have product,” said Patrick Tamm, president and CEO of the Indiana Restaurant and Lodging Association. “We suffer various menu challenges because we don’t have items in stock. It’s not that we don’t have beef or chicken, it’s that we can’t slaughter them, we can’t process them, we can’t put them on trucks.”
Fox59.com
The irony here is that there aren’t enough people to “poach” from other countries anymore. Europe, North American and many parts of Asia have aging demographic problem and the type of work that needs to be done needs young physically fit people.
The continent with the largest number of young people is Africa with a median age of about 16 so if there is a desire for young cheap labor it will likely need to come from that region. By the end of the century, Nigeria is expected to have a larger population than China.
We are at the beginning of the labor shortage problem and this will only get worse exponentially as 60 million boomers retire over the next decade.
Stay tuned and stay solvent…
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