Labor Shortages: South Dakota
South Dakota has a few problems with labor shortages. The first is insufficient number of caregivers to take care of the growing elderly population in the state. From Dakota News…
Labor Shortages: Minnesota
There is a domino effect that is impacting labor shortages and it begins with lack of child care services. Because of a lack of child care services, a potential worker,…
Labor Shortages: Massachusetts
According to Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, Massachusetts has a shortage of 19,000 health care workers. From WWLP.com The Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association estimated last fall that hospitals around…
Labor Shortages: Utah
The State of Utah doesn’t have enough medical personnel and the problem will likely only get worse. The health care problem in Utah would be even worse if it weren’t…
Labor Shortages: Iowa
Labor shortages in Iowa are so bad that laws are being changed to let children work some potentially dangerous jobs. From Yahoo Finance: A new bill introduced in the Iowa…
Labor Shortages: Nebraska
“We have to compete better (with other states)” is the rallying cry of Nebraska Governor Pillen. A few weeks ago, Nebraska proposed tax cuts and incentives to try to make…
Labor Shortages: Connecticut
The state of Connecticut has a problem and it’s called labor shortage. From the CT Insider: Highlighting the need for more personnel, Electric Boat has about 3,400 job openings. As…
Labor Shortages: North Carolina
We’re going to start a new series on spotlighting labor shortages issues on a state by state basis. We don’t think we’ll ever run out of states to write about…
Labor Shortages: Spain Approach vs UK Approach
We write a great deal about labor shortages in the United States but the problem isn’t unique to the US. The labor shortages in the UK are beginning to become…
The Fed, JOLTS and Social Security Beneficiaries
The Fed hiked a quarter point today to bring the Fed funds rate to 4.5% to 4.75% and Powell mentioned that goods inflation was coming down however services inflation is…