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> So this is 95% just employers being unwilling to raise wages which will fix most shortages pretty quickly. Don't be so quick to think this. Society can't ju
by mywittyname 5y ago
> So this is 95% just employers being unwilling to raise wages which will fix most shortages pretty quickly.
Don't be so quick to think this. Society can't just poof into existence more qualified skilled workers. It takes years to train nurses and a decade or more to do so with M.Ds/O.Ds.
Right now, traveling nurses are being offered pretty insane salaries, up to and including low five figures a week. It hasn't helped bring more people in, or fixed the burnout. People are just traveling to work for the highest bidder. I suspect most are planning to leave the game after they've saved up enough money.
- guyzero 5y agoSure, these reports tend to lump nurses and fast food workers together, which is of course nonsensical. Indeed shortages of skilled workers in the US have to do with the unaffordability of higher education in the US. That said, in theory the US could raise wages enough to attract skilled professionals in from other countries. Except that the US also has extremely restrictive immigration laws and a housing shortage making it extremely difficult to pay people enough to live where they're needed.