Robert Wolf, former Obama economic adviser, and Fox News contributor Sean Duffy debate the state of the economy as many businesses struggle to find employees.
Some U.S. small business and restaurant owners claim President Biden s unemployment benefit extension is making it difficult to hire new workers.
The president s American Rescue Plan included a $300-per-week unemployment-benefit extension through September of 2021 despite concerns from Republicans that the benefits may be holding Americans back from finding new employment opportunities.
Nationwide, employers say they are competing with the government for workers.
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Buddy Foy Jr., 50, owns two restaurants with his wife – one in Bolton Landing, New York, called The Chateau on The Lake and one in Holmes Beach, Florida, called The Chateau Anna Maria, which opened in December amid COVID-19.
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What if all of the county’s restaurants reopened their doors following a year-long pandemic that forced massive layoffs and hardly anyone showed up? To work.
It’s more than a hypothetical riddle.
As drinking and dining venues across San Diego County and the nation get the green light to more widely welcome back the customers they’ve been craving since COVID-19 first shut them down almost 14 months ago, they’ve been confronting a near-crisis labor shortage.
While it initially caught employers off guard, it shouldn’t be all that surprising.
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San Diego is experiencing something of a perfect storm as it transitions into life under increasingly relaxed reopening rules driven by rising vaccinations and diminishing infection rates. That, in turn, has unleashed a torrent of job openings not only for restaurants and bars, but also for hotels, casinos, theme parks and other service industries at a time when enhanced jobless benefits remain alluring.
San Diego Restaurants Likens Search for Workers to a War : You Can t Find People
On 5/7/21 at 12:57 PM EDT
Amid the worker shortage across the country, San Diego restaurants are likening the search for employees to a war. It s like a war, just because it feels like this is endless, Dario Gallo, owner of Italian restaurants Civico by the Park and Civico 1845, told
The San Diego Union Tribune. After 14 months of COVID hell, you finally get the orange light to open up at 50 percent capacity and you can t find people to come back to work, David Cohn, co-founder of the Cohn Restaurant Group, added.
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