here at croydon university hospital, there are about 40 midwives short, but newly qualified phoebe isaac loves it. i m very privileged to be able to be in this role. it s such an amazing job and i wouldn t change it there s a shortage of 2,500 midwives in england. 91 nhs trusts have told us about their midwife staffing levels. they vary in size, but on average, trusts are 25 midwives short. i think it s actually been really amazing. oh, that s so sweet. it means a lot. there is a plan and progress to train and hire more midwives. another worry, though, is keeping more experienced staff. the reason i left is because i decided i couldn t be one of those providing unsafe care for people. hannah williams worked as a midwife in a different part of the country. at 35, she quit the job she used to love. if you do not have enough midwives
enough truckers toet get producs to the stores, to people sns homes. that means shortages in c the stores. that means more inflation. everything is going to cost more . thisisth is disastrous. well, they already have s a shortage of truckers, aren t they , assemblyman fong? i mean, you ve seen you ve seen ads all over the place for the long haul truckers. they can t get enough truckers now. they re going to make life more miserable for them. again, it makes zero sense unless you want to actually kill off an industry. absolutely. we have an eighty thousand we need eighty thousand more truckers nationally and that s going to worsen by 20 30 . you may that may double. we may need one hundred and sixty thousand more truckers ink by 20 30 .es so this law only makes it worse. we re going to force truck drivers out of state or to retire completely and that s just going to exacerbate an stretched supply chain atli the voters of california. i mean, nonefo n of this is working. they haveg. to ch
in the pandemic and so many children who do come to nursery have got delays of one kind or another. these can be transient delays that mean they need a little bit of help, informed help. but we need more staff rather than fewer staff to work with those children. 0k, in which case, let s look at the situation as it stands. parents do not have, a lot of parents, do not have the extra money to pay higher fees, they are feeling cost of living pressures in so many ways on household bills. you said yourself there s a shortage of childcare staff. if you can t increase wages substantially and pass the on costs, if there s no surplus of childcare staff, what do you think is the way to solve this? the government has to look at what it invests in the whole system. because it may say it invests a lot, but it doesn t invest as much as the nordic countries, as germany, even france, you know, in the whole system. and that money, public money, should come with strings attached.
Patience is the keyword this holiday season as airlines across the nation work to hire more pilots and TSA agents. Assistant Director of Aviation and Transit Shane Ketterling said the shortage was triggered by the pandemic.