With 8 million Americans out of work, why are more companies not filling jobs?
By Ann Saphir and Lucia Mutikani
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the economy revs up to meet the rapacious demand of tens of millions of newly vaccinated Americans, employers say they cannot fill their yawning need for labor.
Take Alex Washut. In January he mapped out hiring plans for his two breakfast and lunch eateries in western Massachusetts and figured he d need to hire 20 new cooks, servers, dishwashers and other staff by May. He has doubled wages in some cases but has managed to hire only five; most of the time, he said, job candidates never even show for their interviews.
Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history. Boltonians of a certain age will remember fondly the ‘day trip’ to Blackpool, by train. It has a history stretching back to the middle of the 19th century and was known for generations as ‘th’ chep (cheap) trip’. Allen Clarke, in his novels, poetry and dialect sketches wrote lovingly and realistically about it - an important part of life in Bolton and all of the Lancashire cotton towns.
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Biden builds out Cabinet with choices for Commerce and Labor secretaries Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
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President-elect Joe Biden announced Thursday his choices of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead the Commerce Department and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to head the Labor Department.
In fleshing out his economics team, Biden also named:
• Isabel Guzman to head the Small Business Administration. She is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff at the agency who is now director of California s Office of the Small Business Advocate.
• Don Graves to serve as deputy secretary of Commerce. Former President Barack Obama put Graves in charge of helping revive Detroit when it grappled with bankruptcy by working with municipal, state, business, and community leaders. Graves is a former executive director of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and deputy assistant secretary for small business, community development, and h
By Julianne Malveaux
I neither expected sparks nor extreme surprises as President-elect Joe Biden begin to announce his Cabinet. I did expect diversity, and we’ve seen it. But I didn’t expect the number of Obama-era retreads to be included in this Cabinet.
As I write this, I can hardly contain my disappointment that Tom Vilsack, the man who fired Shirley Sherrod for specious reasons, is being asked, again, to lead the Department of Agriculture. Many of us had hoped that Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, who served several years on the House Committee on Agriculture, would get this position. Instead, she has was nominated to be the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), still a cabinet position.