Green Card Company Benefits for Labor Shortages
The labor shortage has gotten so bad that companies are now offering immigration benefit services to foreign workers. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that companies like Amazon, Tyson and…
Indiana Wants Immigrant Labor To Slaughter, Process and Truck Meat For Restaurants
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…
Labor Shortages: Air Traffic Controllers
We’ve been warning about the growing crisis with a shortage of labor across the United States primarily caused by 10,000+ boomers retiring every day. We’ve written about the pilot shortage…
Housing & Demographics – Rental Property Income
While the stock market continues to show volatility and with the Fed expected to hike the next two FOMC meetings, our strategy is to sit out the stock market until…
Michigan Hospitals Labor Shortage and Big Macs
A while ago, we wrote about the tough choices ahead with regards to labor. In Tough Choices: Prison Guards or 911 Operators we wrote about how cities are struggling to…
Walmart Can’t Find Managers Even at $200,000
The Wall Street Journal had a great article on Walmart’s struggle to hire managers for their stores. Many managers leading the company’s roughly 4,700 U.S. stores have been in their…
A Sneak Peak For Boomers in 2030
The core thesis on this site has centered around the upcoming “Boomerpocalypse” where we see 60 million boomers all hit the retirement age of 65 in 2030. We’ve cautioned repeatedly…
JOLTS May 2022 Report: 11.5 Million Open Jobs
The BLS released their JOLTS report today and shows a whopping 11.5 million open jobs. On the last business day of March, the number of job openings was little changed…
Demographics: 500,000 Less Teachers
There is a teacher shortage across the United States and the problem has become worse since covid changed the teaching landscape. The Hill has an intriguing look into what some…
Employers Desperate, Dropping College Degree Requirements
Yahoo Finance had an interesting story about employers starting to drop college degree requirements as many jobs go unfilled. The researchers analyzed more than 51 million job listings, looking for…