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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnemployment numbers continue to fall.
I just read that in my home state of Ohio, unemployment is now 3.7% which is the lowest its been since 1976.
Yet, I still hear business owners griping that nobody wants to work any more.
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Unemployment numbers continue to fall. (Original Post)
Diamond_Dog
May 2023
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onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)1. No one wants to work for slave wages.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,636 posts)2. Absolutely right!
Those business owners must start realizing that they have to be more competitive with their wages if they want good workers.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)6. How much profit would ever be enough for them?
I dont see how you can grow a business when youre perpetually short of workers.
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)4. I just wanted to reach a point where we could pay a major car repair in cash not credit card.
We reached that goal under Clinton. Lost it under Bush II.
Now living SS to SS.
I will never vote Republican.
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)3. 👍🏼. Biden 2024.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)5. Workers have left the workforce.
I don't know where they went, but that's the reasoning I hear.