“Given how much infection there is, our hospitals really are at the brink right now,” Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, told CNN on Sunday. Of the approximately 5,000 hospitals that reported this data to HHS on Saturday, nearly 1,200...
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Three key numbers that explain America’s labor shortage 💥💥💥
That makes it hard for businesses to keep up with rampant demand. Economists worry how long it will take for people on the sidelines to come back into the workforce. For much of the pandemic, economists agreed that child care challenges and worries about the...
Retiring Boomers, not lazy Millennials, are driving the labor shortage 💥💥💥
One of the more insidious myths making the rounds this year was that young people didn’t want to work because they were getting by just fine on government aid. People had too much money, went the narrative from a handful of politicians and pundits. Here’s...
Canadian employers, facing labor shortage, accommodate the unvaccinated 💥💥💥
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government adopted one of the strictest vaccine policies in the world for civil servants and has already put more than 1,000 workers on unpaid leave, with thousands more at risk. Airlines, police forces, school boards and even Canada’s Big Five...
‘Quite disruptive’: Months-long processing delays leave people out of work amid nationwide labor shortage 💥💥💥
Vera de Aponte, a registered behavior technician for special needs children in Florida, had to walk away from her job this month when her work permit that allows her to legally work in the United States lapsed. Her family has since adjusted their holiday plans,...
How greed fueled Lebanon’s deadly milk and medicine shortage 💥💥💥
A pharmacy employee looks through mostly empty medicine cabinets at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut. Beirut/Akkar, Lebanon — Ammouneh Haydar sits on a plastic chair in the sparsely furnished apartment she hasn’t left for a month. As the sun sets, a single fluorescent...
How greed fueled Lebanon’s deadly milk and medicine shortage 💥💥💥
A pharmacy employee looks through mostly empty medicine cabinets at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut. Beirut/Akkar, Lebanon — Ammouneh Haydar sits on a plastic chair in the sparsely furnished apartment she hasn’t left for a month. As the sun sets, a single fluorescent...
The Colorado River’s shortage is a sign of a larger crisis 💥💥💥
The Colorado River irrigates farms, powers electric grids and provides drinking water to 40 million people. But as its supply dwindles, a crisis looms. By Drew Kann, Renée Rigdon and Daniel Wolfe, CNN Published August 21, 2021 Maricopa, ArizonaFor farmers in the deserts of central...
The Colorado River’s shortage is a sign of a larger crisis 💥💥💥
The Colorado River irrigates farms, powers electric grids and provides drinking water to 40 million people. But as its supply dwindles, a crisis looms. By Drew Kann, Renée Rigdon and Daniel Wolfe, CNN Published August 21, 2021 Maricopa, ArizonaFor farmers in the deserts of central...