{"id":31719,"date":"2018-07-08T00:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T00:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31719"},"modified":"2018-07-08T00:50:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T00:50:05","slug":"the-coming-labor-shortage-in-america-is-great-news-for-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31719","title":{"rendered":"The coming &#8216;labor shortage&#8217; in America is great news for workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static5.businessinsider.com\/image\/5b1692e91ae6621f008b4c64-2000\/amazon-worker.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Amazon worker\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For now, the coming &#8220;labor shortage&#8221; is good news for workers.<br \/>\nWe should root for it to continue.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s undoubtedly a headache for some owners and managers. But it&#8217;s one they should, hopefully, be made to live with for a few years.<\/p>\n<p>They say &#8220;labor shortage&#8221; like it&#8217;s a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America&rsquo;s labor shortage is approaching epidemic proportions, and it could be employers who end up paying,&#8221; CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/07\/05\/the-us-labor-shortage-is-reaching-a-critical-point.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain\">reported this week<\/a>. That was before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jobs-report-june-2018-2018-7?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yet another monthly jobs report<\/a> showing solid growth in jobs and wages.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/labor-shortage-good-news-workers-2018-7?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">See the rest of the story at Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOW WATCH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/watch-how-these-silicone-prosthetic-skins-are-made-touch-bionics-livingskin-2018-6?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">This is how moveable prosthetic covers are made for bionic limbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/australia-ends-funding-to-palestinian-authority-pa-trump-israel-2018-7?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Australia just took a cue from Trump on Palestine, and it proves his unconventional approach can pay off<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/denmark-laws-immigration-ghettos-us-border-crisis-2018-7?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Denmark&#8217;s new laws on immigrant &#8216;ghettos&#8217; are a chilling look into what happens after the border<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/conspiracy-theories-in-trump-era-political-arguments-2018-6?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Get a grip, people. Your conspiracy-minded impulses are making you look stupid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/conspiracy-theories-in-trump-era-political-arguments-2018-6?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\" >Get a grip, people. Your conspiracy-minded impulses are making you look stupid<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=-YdNQWBw8iM:DINBPEVDeMk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=-YdNQWBw8iM:DINBPEVDeMk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=-YdNQWBw8iM:DINBPEVDeMk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=-YdNQWBw8iM:DINBPEVDeMk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=-YdNQWBw8iM:DINBPEVDeMk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=-YdNQWBw8iM:DINBPEVDeMk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=-YdNQWBw8iM:DINBPEVDeMk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=-YdNQWBw8iM:DINBPEVDeMk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~4\/-YdNQWBw8iM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~3\/-YdNQWBw8iM\/labor-shortage-good-news-workers-2018-7\">feedproxy.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For now, the coming &#8220;labor shortage&#8221; is good news for workers. We should root for it to continue. It&#8217;s undoubtedly a headache for some owners and managers. But it&#8217;s one they should, hopefully, be made to live with for a few years. They say &#8220;labor shortage&#8221; like it&#8217;s a bad thing. &#8220;America&rsquo;s labor shortage is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16281,4142,287,6136,16014,16120,3372,16280,15741],"class_list":["post-31719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-coming","tag-grip","tag-jobs","tag-labor","tag-look","tag-made","tag-people","tag-shortage","tag-your"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/5b1692e91ae6621f008b4c64-1920-9601531011007.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}