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Why Are So Many Businesses Struggling To Find Workers?
By NPR
Consider This from NPR
12/05/21
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14m 18s
Republicans say enhanced pandemic unemployment benefits are what's keeping people out of the workforce. That could be playing a role, but the complete picture is far more complicated.
NPR chief economic correspondent
Scott Horsley
lays out the evidence for what's really behind the
struggle to find workers.
Stacey Vanek Smith
, host of NPR's daily economics podcast
The Indicator
, explains why the problem may be specific to a certain subset of the economy. More from the Indicator on
that topic here.
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