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work? reporter: according to the job search website indeed, the number one reason people are not going back to work is fear of catching coronavirus still many economists predicted job gains with the expiration of enhanced unemployment benefits and school reopenings. but that has not happened if you had your way, how many more people would you hire right now? five, at least. reporter: in sarasota, florida, mike martin owns reef cakes restaurant, but these days he s juggling multiple jobs himself because he can t find anyone to hire and he s postponed plans to open six days a week. i have a head chef here he s working about 65 plus hours a week and i m working upwards of that, more than that so it s been very challenging. reporter: so, peter, what are some of the industries that are still looking to hire right now? reporter: yeah, lester among them, retail, restaurants, transportation, health care that have all been raising wages and offering better benefits to try to attract
to protecting our borders. carley? carley: all right. turning to the economy where it seems like the additional $300 a week in federal unemployment was creating a massive incentive not to work. new data from job search website indeed shows a 5% spike in job searches immediately following the end of those benefits in some states. here to react is goya foods president and ceo bob unanue. it looks like this indeed study those federal unemployment benefits were disincentivizing people to get a job. are you surprised by this? no. you know, this has been going on for quite a while. there has been so much money thrown at, you know, during covid. we it our company stayed open. we stayed working. we had the best year of our lives. i m in texas right now. texas, florida, south dakota, also their economies have
this rapid economic growth across the country. it ends up we can be an example for heck toes would have been 90,800 jobs open this morning in our state free job search website. yet, at the same time we only have about 40,000 folks on unemployment. so you see the miss match mismah there. we need more eligible workersen in the game. all hands on deck type situation. this is one of the ways we will get more hands on deck. ainsley: how does the plan work? who will be tested? well, all of our folks who are both childless and able-bodied who are currently receiving food stamps here in wink are eligible to move into what we call our food share employment training program. that s something that we have really invested a lot in in fact about $60 million in order to get folks either working or job training 80 hours a month so that one day they don t need food
joining me now is brendan wallace. a personal job search website. you have good news for all of us. it s nice to have you here. we re talking about this shortage of trained people in the high tech field. why would there be a shortage especially in this day in age? i think what s happened is there are so many startups and technology companies are growing at a fast pace and the number of engineers being produced out of the top universities and great engineering programs haven t really changed and hasn t really kept pace with the demand for those engineers. so companies like ours are getting started and we re growing so quickly that we ve created 30 jobs in 12 months and so for that exact reason that wasn t the case 10, 15 years ago. so i think it s been very hard for a lot of these engineering programs to keep pace with the demand for jobs in the market. so that certainly is encouraging. explain recruiters that will look from silicon valley across the country, what are they specifica