Unfit to Print: AMERICA'S DISPOSABLE WORKFORCE
Businesses are panicking over losing temporary, low-cost workers. Good.
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Employers say losing access to 200,000 Haitian workers will force them to raise pay, recruit Americans and rethink how they operate.
They apparently consider that a crisis.
AMERICA’S DISPOSABLE WORKFORCE
Temporary Protected Status officially ended Wednesday for roughly 350,000 Haitians living in the United States.
About 200,000 of those Haitians hold jobs in the U.S. They are largely concentrated in health care, long-term caregiving, food service, warehouses and retail. Employers have reportedly spent weeks preparing for their departure by increasing signing bonuses, changing shifts and recruiting from local high schools and community colleges.
Read that again.
The prospect of losing hundreds of thousands of temporary, low-cost workers has inspired businesses to work harder to hire Americans.
Is that evidence that the labor market is breaking? Or evidence that it may actually start working as intended?