I saw a thing on the TV news this evening about the current labor shortage. One thing I learned was that it's not just a local problem, and another thing, which I already suspected, is that it's not just a current problem. They reported that there were some eight million unfilled job openings nationwide as long as two years ago. They said to see their website for more information about the subject, but all I could find was this article about restaurants:
'Now Hiring': Restaurants nationwide struggle to find workers | WPBN (upnorthlive.com)
Maybe I could find more information if I had my friend Cortana do a wider search of the internet. I might do that tonight and, if I find anything, tack it on the end of this post. The TV news didn't say what they thought was the root cause of the problem, but it occurred to me that the general aging of the population might have something to do with it. I was 45 when our local paper mill shut down, and you couldn't buy a job in this town in those days. On the national scene, many companies were downsizing and either forcing or persuading people my age to take early retirement. Now that I'm 75, with barely enough energy to make the hundred yard walk to the mailbox each day, do they expect me to go back to work? Sorry folks, you're 30 years too late.
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And here it is. Remember, you heard it first from Talks With Beagles.
"Working-age population growth is slowing to a halt. The massive retirement of the large baby boomer generation is bringing growth in the working-age population to a halt—a trend that will continue through 2030. This is the main reason why this era of shortages is so different. Never before have such a large number of retirements and almost zero growth in the working-age population happened before."
https://www.conference-board.org/topics/labor-shortages#:~:text=Labor%20shortages%20are%2
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