It also says: > Yet the experience of towns like Ames and Des Moines show that such “labor shortages” might be due to insufficient wages and crummy working con

It also says: > Yet the experience of towns like Ames and Des Moines show that such “labor shortages” might be due to insufficient wages and crummy working conditions > Indeed, across the economy, companies have shown a remarkable unwillingness to boost wages > Low wages continue to be an extraordinary problem preventing workers from connecting with a good job and keeping potential employees on the sidelines — in Iowa and across the country. > “But there’s still this cliff, around $13 or $15. If you are making less than that, you can’t take a job. And we are not seeing too many companies go over it.”