Labor Shortage

Shortages of supplies and labor are pushing prices higher and stifling growth in the services sector.

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of PBS’ “Firing Line,” economist Lawrence Summers argued that one reason for the job shortage is that we have “completely inappropriate” unemployment benefits “on excessively generous terms where we’re giving people more money for

On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) stated that enhanced unemployment benefits might be one cause of labor shortages, one way that the shortage is being resolved is by increasing wages, which Murphy conceded “may be a

Wages and hours are up but businesses are still struggling to hire because unemployment benefits are set so high.

Florida is ending on June 26 the federal unemployments benefits to residents in a bid to get 460,000 unemployed Floridians back on payrolls.

Inflationary pressures glared out from the Richmond Fed’s monthly manufacturing report.

Despite efforts by President Joe Biden’s administration to pack the United States workforce with more foreign labor, there remain about 16.4 million Americans who are jobless but want a full-time job and millions more who are underemployed. 

Industry CEOs believe President Biden’s coronavirus relief plan is adding to a labor shortage for restaurants by paying people to stay home.

Tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and are collecting unemployment. Yet businesses across the U.S. tell Fed officials they cannot find enough workers.

Millions of Americans remain jobless, but all want full-time jobs, even as President Joe Biden’s administration seeks to flood to United States labor market with foreign competition via more legal immigration and an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

Tens of millions of Americans remain jobless, but all want full-time jobs, mostly as a result of economic shutdowns spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis, new unemployment data shows. 

Working class Americans are experiencing a higher level of unemployment than middle class and white-collar professionals — showing no signs of a labor shortage — new analysis finds. 

There remain more than 35.1 million Americans who are unemployed, out of the labor force, and underemployed, but all of whom want full-time jobs, showing no shortage of labor from which business can hire. 

More than 19.5 million Americans are continuing to receive unemployment benefits, a continued sign that there is no shortage of labor in the United States workforce. 

American medical school graduates are asking President Trump to expand his executive order to halt the H-1B and J-1 visa programs that import thousands of foreign doctors every year — taking jobs from qualified Americans who are unmatched for residencies. 

While 47 Republican lawmakers ask President Trump to bring more foreign workers to the United States, there remains no labor shortage with 30 million Americans unemployed, all of whom want full-time jobs. 

Despite more than 33 million Americans filing for unemployment in recent weeks due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, business is continuing to demand more foreign workers to take jobs in the United States. 

Big business and Big Agriculture is complaining of labor shortages and high wages while the Chinese coronavirus crisis has spurred mass unemployment with at least 22 million Americans out of work.

There remain about 11.4 million Americans who are out of work, sitting on the labor market sidelines but wanting full-time jobs.

There remain more than 11 million Americans who are out of work despite claims by the big business lobby of a so-called “labor shortage.”

Rising wages are good for politicians, for employees, and for the economy, Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told Breitbart News.  

Wage hikes for America’s blue collar and working class can be readily suppressed and choked by importing more foreign workers for employers, the New York Times admits. 

Inflation-adjusted wages were flat for the second month in a row.

President Trump’s tightened labor market is giving Maryland’s seafood industry reason to complain, mainly because they want to import more foreign workers to do U.S. blue-collar jobs.

“We want wages to go up,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at a conference in Los Angeles Monday.

Neel Kashkari has become the Federal Reserve’s foremost skeptic of the notion that the U.S. is experiencing a severe labor shortage.

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota, Neel Kashkari, blasted claims of a labor shortage by telling employers they must raise wages.

Don’t expect food prices to suddenly skyrocket despite what you’ve heard about crops rotting in the fields in California.

Several recent media reports on tight labor markets may have been entirely wrong. New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that the construction labor market is not as tight as these news outlets might want us to believe. According to

The New York Times grieved the slowdown of United States companies outsourcing jobs to foreigners, who are often exploited in the process.