It's a labor/motivation shortage for the lowest paying jobs, but more troubling is the growing skills deficit: > “Clearly, there are industries in both manufac

It's a labor/motivation shortage for the lowest paying jobs, but more troubling is the growing skills deficit: > “Clearly, there are industries in both manufacturing and services that are eager to beef up staff as the pace of economic activity accelerates. But those efforts are being frustrated. In some cases, the problem is a mismatch in skills. You can’t train a one-time courier on a bike to become an IT specialist overnight,” said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group. As a hiring manager, it's become much more difficult to find even mediocre engineers over the past three years, and I don't believe it's because the duds we interview would rather live off of unemployment.