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PatrickforB

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37. A lot of factors go into this.
Fri May 7, 2021, 09:39 PM
May 2021

While it is predictable that the US Chamber would come out with this unkind and in fact merciless proposal, we have to look at the skill gap.

When I analyze gaps in my own region, for example, I find the top two jobs listed are software developer and registered nurse, and the top occupation groups in which there are too many job openings chasing too few people are healthcare professional and technical, and computer mathematical. These, of course, are jobs that require higher levels of skill and formal education.

Where we see the greatest surpluses are people who formerly worked in accommodation, food and drinking places, and brick and mortar retail. Unfortunately the skills these people have DO NOT MATCH the skills employers are demanding. So, you see a skill gap - a problem with the training pipeline, and a bunch of unfilled jobs with a group of people that are unemployed, but do not have the skills to fill those jobs.

It is not surprising Republicans and Chambers tend to thoughtlessly blame people for taking a 'paid vacation' on unemployment benefits, the reality is we have some fundamental structural shortfalls in our training pipeline. I would suggest this is politically motivated - another attack on victims of economic violence, another attempt to discredit the very safety nets that keep our economy going. Yet another attempt to gut government programs, so that the so-called 'invisible hand' of the market can solve all our problems through privatization and deregulation.

Those policies are really doozies on the ground, too. Look at what happened to Texans as a result of the privatization and deregulation of their power grid. A cold snap = a $14,000 monthly power bill. Predatory capitalism. Right out of Jack London's People of the Abyss.

Are the jobs out there? Yes.

Are the unemployed people out there? Yes.

Do the unemployed have the skills necessary to fill the open jobs? Not necessarily.

Should we blame the unemployed for not filling jobs they don't have the skills to fill? Nope.

Should we rethink our training pipeline to increase options for engaging in a number of types of upskilling? Make it affordable, debt free? Yep. But the market cannot and will not do something like that, will it? It will take government, which is the solution, not the problem.

I think with the extra 300/wk pay it takes a person to 15 an hour. I know I am getting more than LizBeth May 2021 #1
Not gonna to happen . .. Lovie777 May 2021 #2
You knew this was coming. Why help struggling people who... Guilded Lilly May 2021 #3
The jobs are there. nt doc03 May 2021 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill May 2021 #11
move to hawaii. loads of min wage tourist service jobs...but they defy supply and demand by msongs May 2021 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill May 2021 #26
Not true. My son has still not been called back to work at a Major Wailua (Maui) resort SamsDrink May 2021 #31
one case does not make up for all the help wanted signs in windows on oahu nt msongs May 2021 #33
There are all kinds of jobs being advertized Deminpenn May 2021 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill May 2021 #36
Um, no, just saying there are many businessess looking to hire Deminpenn May 2021 #44
You shouldn't get UI benefits if you are working. MichMan May 2021 #48
Even with the federal supplement to UI benefits, many people are still in financial difficulty Deminpenn May 2021 #50
Sounds like you agree with the Chamber of Commerce that people are refusing jobs to stay on UI MichMan May 2021 #51
I do think some people are making a financial calculation Deminpenn May 2021 #52
NPR just did a story on it. They're all over oldsoftie May 2021 #35
There are signs everywhere around where I live. They are retail and doc03 May 2021 #38
Please point out where in Ohio you can live on $20,800 per year before taxes lonely bird May 2021 #47
Well the minimum wage is $8.80 so apparently doc03 May 2021 #53
$20,800 is $10.00 per hour lonely bird May 2021 #54
no they aren't. the jobs are not there. Trueblue1968 May 2021 #17
What type of work are you looking for? forthemiddle May 2021 #46
Really? Where, exactly? In the thousands of businesses that went under? And do these mythical jobs niyad May 2021 #23
With that wish list, you may as well ask for a pony while you're at it. N/T Jedi Guy May 2021 #59
Why should that not be a given?? Seems to me, and those who advocate for workers, that those are, niyad May 2021 #61
You're about as likely to get that dragon as you are the rest of the stuff on your wish list. Jedi Guy May 2021 #62
Libertarian garbage. ForgoTheConsequence May 2021 #64
No, I just described reality. N/T Jedi Guy May 2021 #65
A lot of factors go into this. PatrickforB May 2021 #37
Well of course they would. SergeStorms May 2021 #5
Even more disappointing than the jobs report is the celebrity apprentice showman, Budi May 2021 #6
Screw the chamber of commerce. One UE report says NOTHING, and the fact JohnSJ May 2021 #7
So, in order to get people to go back to work for starvation wages and no benefits AllyCat May 2021 #8
Ooh! South Carolina and Montana are canceling their federal jobless benefits! Storybook612 May 2021 #9
The cost of doing business changes all the time NQAS May 2021 #10
How to identify a Trumper? Sign out front sez "can't find workers, unemployment pays too much"! machoneman May 2021 #12
they should let people go back to work AND NJCher May 2021 #13
The governments finances are honestly not infinite so without enough to offset that cstanleytech May 2021 #14
yeah, but it's only through september NJCher May 2021 #21
Fuck MOMFUDSKI May 2021 #15
My sentiments exactly! One sided pressure group Tiger8 May 2021 #18
"big corporate chains who pay minimum wage, if that." Jedi Guy May 2021 #60
They have loopholes. Tiger8 May 2021 #63
The chamber of Horrors can go pound sand, maybe they should get unemployment turbinetree May 2021 #19
"chamber of commerce" is no friend of workers. their priority is the businesses. bullimiami May 2021 #20
How about decent pay and benefits? Happy Hoosier May 2021 #22
in my mom's little Ga town, the CoC is in the old jail bldg. i found it appropriate KG May 2021 #24
They want people to come back to work for shit wages. Warpy May 2021 #25
Truth is nobody is entitled to own a business. I_UndergroundPanther May 2021 #27
Instead, we should confiscate the fortunes of the "self-made" billionaires. Midnight Writer May 2021 #28
Shows how the American capitalist system is a house of cards packman May 2021 #29
they are happy to cut benefits of any kind to 1000 people as long as it keeps just 1 person wiggs May 2021 #30
A much better way to stimulate employment is to raise the minimum wage. patphil May 2021 #32
The most important sentence in the OP is Cheezoholic May 2021 #39
The 25% of people who make more money on unemployment than at their jobs Sucha NastyWoman May 2021 #40
College students have never been eligible for unemployment MichMan May 2021 #41
Connect Them Roy Rolling May 2021 #42
Maxrandb calls for the end of the Chamber of Commerce maxrandb May 2021 #43
Fuck these ghouls, fucking parasites on society, profiting off of our hard work... Humanist_Activist May 2021 #45
Maybe the people that are not taking service jobs have Hotler May 2021 #49
Not to mention there's no discussion of WHY workers haven't gone back TexasBushwhacker May 2021 #55
Chamber of Commerce maliaSmith May 2021 #56
There's some kind of disconnect here TheFarseer May 2021 #57
Same here in Michigan MichMan May 2021 #58
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