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The Labor Shortage: Good For Workers, Bad For Businesses

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Morning Edition | July 22, 2021 WGBH 89.7

Many employers in Massachusetts and across the country are hurting for help. Help wanted signs are canvasing the Cape and Islands, and in Salem, a cash incentive is being offered by the city to anyone who takes a service industry job. The labor loss is being referred to as a “Great Resignation.”

Professor Robert Triest joined joined Mary Blake on GBH’s Morning Edition to discuss.

Link to discussion

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