Walmart Set to Close All Stores in Portland amid Record-Breaking Retail Theft

[Mariana]

67. There are lots of reasons why there is a shortage of workers.

1. The Boomers are retiring en masse. This is the big one and was always going to happen.

Most of the rest is down to the pandemic.

2. Hundreds of thousands of workers have died of Covid.
3. Who knows how many were so disabled by Covid that they can't work.
4. Millions of people retired early during the pandemic.
5. Many two income families adapted to living on one income, and haven't gone back.
6. Many laid off people successfully became self-employed.
7. Many people who received enhanced unemployment took the opportunity to learn new skills.

I'm sure there is more.

It's just a fantasy that there's some vast pool of potential employees out there who are refusing to work. The unemployment rate is spectacularly low. People ARE working. Most of them have better options now than shitty restaurant and retail jobs.