Why Are Some Employers Struggling to Find Workers in the US?

In this episode, Jacob and Eric open with some good news on the culture war's education front before looking at why many middle-class Americans vote for politicians who implement leftist, immoral policies. Attorney General Merrick Garland's recent testimony before Congress provides an answer to this. Eric then shows how vaccine mandates have driven a larger wedge between the working class and Democrats and discusses whether the Republican Party is aware enough to capitalize. For the main topic, they discuss the problem many business owners are having finding workers. Why aren't Americans going back to work as they did before the pandemic? Is it unemployment insurance, laziness, increased immigration, or something else that's disrupting the labor supply?

 

00:00 Intro

01:02 The National School Board Association takes a knee to parents

11:09AG Merrick Garland has no knowledge of nonbinary rape case in Loudoun County

23:56 AG Merrick Garland has no knowledge of Interior Department insurrection

35:58 Working Class Voters up for Grabs

44:00 Main Topic: Why aren't Americans going back to work?

44:19 Is federal unemployment keeping people on the couch?

51:41 Labor Supply and Demand in Post-Covid America

 

SHOWNOTES:

NSBA reverses course on letter calling parents “domestic terrorists:” https://twitter.com/NoahPollak/status/1451705222531674112 

Merrick Garland gets grilled over Loudoun County rape cases involving transgender suspect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-_KdARihik

Garland gets grilled on protesters who stormed the Department of Interior: https://steube.house.gov/media/press-releases/steube-grills-ag-garland-politicized-doj-during-house-judiciary-committee 

Newsweek article on how the Left is abandoning the working class over vaccine mandates: https://www.newsweek.com/working-class-americans-are-standing-themselves-left-denouncing-them-opinion-1637577 

Employers still struggling to find workers even after the expiration of unemployment benefits: https://news.yahoo.com/federal-unemployment-benefits-gone-businesses-132328154.html

Cites academic study that found most people who lost benefits still can’t find work: https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/labor-shortage-idaho-employee-jobs-unemployment-hiring/277-1e2cdaa8-80cf-40b9-b1ca-d8a957982aa6

Former restaurant worker gives his perspective on the unemployment crisis: https://www.foodandwine.com/fwpro/real-reason-restaurant-worker-shortage

Cartels formed rings to supply low-wage workers to American employers in the Midwest: https://www.restaurant-hospitality.com/legal/19-indicted-restaurant-linked-racketeering-case

How the government is contributing to these immigration/employment rackets:  https://www.foxnews.com/us/midnight-biden-secretly-flying-underage-migrants-ny-night 

The pandemic has forced restaurants to treat employees with more respect and offer them greater compensation: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/18/restaurant-execs-less-migration-means-better-treatment-u-s-workers/

Cato Institute bemoans how Trump kept 1.2 million immigrants out of the workforce, blames this for the supply chain crisis: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/19/cato-trump-excluded-1-2-million-foreign-workers-from-u-s-jobs/ 

 

Intro/Outro Music by Karl Casey, White Bat Audio: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteBatAudio/featured