Labor Shortage

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.

If there were really a labor shortage, wages would be rising.

Construction wages in Dallas are still below the national average despite overall wages being higher.

It’s really all about corporations hoping for more cheap imported labor.

The myth of “jobs Americans won’t do” is once again on the rise.

Farmers in California are worried that President Obama’s recent executive action on immigration will exacerbate a labor shortage problem in the Golden State’s agriculture industry.