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Jack Edwards wrote:
Sun Oct 17, 2021 8:56 pm
Thinker wrote:
As usual I am interested in what are the opinions and thoughts of the other forum members.
To be sure, an element of the worker shortage is people retiring early and to John's point, many women are prioritizing child rearing over being employed. But, the comment I hear over and over again from manufacturers in flyover country is: "Nobody wants to work", and then this is followed with stories of employees who quit to collect welfare checks. So, that too is an element of the worker shortage. Being in manufacturing, the work is physical, dirty, hot/cold. It's work. There is a segment of society which will default to laziness when they can get away with it. And we gave them all an excuse with Covid to not do hard work. I have no idea how they are getting on as some of these benefits are expiring, but sure seems like a lot of folks are choosing to voluntarily not work. Universally businesses are complaining they can't find good help.

The type of worker manufacturing is going after generally aren't you're aging boomers or younger mom's, so your or John's conclusions may very well be accurate - it's just not what I see in manufacturing.

Now... these OSHA covid testing mandates and federal contractor vax mandates the D's are pushing are going to further exacerbate this problem. Most manufacturers have pursued lean, just-in-time operating philosophies over the past decade and were not over staffed before Covid. They are barely making it now. Workers are enormously pissed at being told they need to vax and another not insignificant portion will leave the workforce. It's close to the point where things just won't work anymore if businesses lose more people, there just won't be enough and supply chains will be devastated.

It's going to get uglier I'm afraid.

Regards,
Jack
I work in MFG too and up until about this past July, we couldn't even get people to apply, much less work. Recently we have been able to hire and they're working out well, but it is too early to see if they'll stick around. To attract employees we have had to offer some incentives such as higher than we used to pay wages, full-time benefits for a 30 hour work-week, overtime to those willing to work, 14 days PTO on top of our normal holiday days off, and we promote ourselves as a "second chance, felon friendly" employer ".

Now, having said that, to pay for such we have had to automate some of our back-office operations to help us cut back on administrative costs.
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John wrote:
Sun Oct 17, 2021 5:48 pm
** 17-Oct-2021 World View: The Mass Exodus of Women from work
thinker wrote:
Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:37 am
> I have a theory on the worker shortage, most people are saying
> that it is due to the enhanced unemployment and stimulus. Well I
> live in Florida and we haven't had any of this for a few months
> and we still have a worker shortage. Like everyone else I thought
> that once all the enhanced unemployment and stimulus ended that
> the worker shortage would end, but it didn't so I started thinking
> on this topic and I think I know why it hasn't finished and
> probably won't for years. It is a generational thing. ...

> As usual I am interested in what are the opinions and thoughts of
> the other forum members.
I do have some additional thoughts on the lack of employment.
These are things that are polically incorrect, so you don't hear
them mentioned in the news.

There was a segment on CNBC a couple of days ago, analyzing
what they called "the mass exodus of women from work."
They displayed a graphic with the following information:
> "The Lost workers -- whee are the women workers?
> September jobs: -26K for women, +220K for men
> September labor force: -309K for women, +182K for men"
People had hoped that once schools reopened, women would go back to
work. But instead, the problem got worse in September when schools
reopened. The number of women with a job dropped by 26,000, and
309,000 women left the work force.

It was a long segment, discussing the reasons behind this situation,
but most of it was left-wing crap, because they didn't explain why
women are leaving the work force, except to say that day care was very
expsnvie, and the only "solution" they have is Biden's huge $5
trillion "social infrastructure nonsense" bill, which contains
provisions to improve day care. However, as Becky pointed out, the
proposals are loaded with rules and regulations that would put small
day care centers out of business, and only appear to large national
day care centers.

According to an analyst on Fox News, the day care regulations would
shut out faith-based day care centers, and would give the federal
government tight control over what was taught in those centers
(presumably CRT).

The CNBC segment interviewed one mother who was staying at home to
home-school her children. That mother did not say why she
was staying at home, but we can be pretty sure that she was asked
that question by the interviewer, but that part of the interview
was not shown. If she had said "lack of day care," then it
would have been shown, so it must have been something else.

All the mother did say is that she "had to be forgiving of herself"
for staying at home. This was a link to feminist claims over the
last 50 years that women had to work to serve as role models
for other women, and that any woman who stayed home "to take
of the kids" was a traitor to other women. So I don't know
if feminists have been harassing this mother for staying at home,
but apparently she found a way to forgive herself.

So why doesn't she send her kids to school so she can go back
to work? The answer is pretty obvious, but was not mentioned
once, or even hinted at, in the lengthy CNBC segment.

**** Teachers unions and Critical Race Theory (CRT)

The Covid lockdown last year was a revelation to many parents.
All-powerful teachers unions put one roadblock after another
to opening schools up. Even when everyone was vaccinated, even
when there was plenty of social distancing, even when entire schools
were modified, it was never enough for the teachers unions, and
it was obvious that they were just making excuses.

But something else happened. Mothers got to sit next to their
children on zoom classes and see what the children were actually
being taught. Many parents were shocked and appalled at how
CRT was used to encourage kids to hate each other and their country.
Many parents were totally disgusted by this, and rightly so.

The joke was that even math class was being considered racist.
It's obvious to me why they're saying that. As I've said many
times, politicians and journalists are too dumb to be able
to understand fourth grade math, and that's undoubtedly true
of many teachers as well. If you're too dumb to solve
a problem like "9.8 is 7% of what number?", then you're
too dumb to teach history or any other subject, because history
is filled with those kinds of conundrums.

During the last few months, the public anger against CRT has
been growing. The Democrats see CRT as a vital tool in the
"reeducation" of the Trump supporters, and so they're fighting
back.

So why do moms not want to send their kids back to school?

Reason #1: Schools are teaching CRT, which teaches children
to hate each other and to hate the country.

**** Attorney-General Garland

Terry McAuliffe, who is the Democrat running for governor in Virginia,
said at a debate that parents should not be permitted to tell schools
how to each.

Last week, the Attorney-General Garland sent out a letter to school
boards saying that the school board should report local opposition to
CRT, because any parent opposing CRT is likely to be a domestic
terrorist. I'll come back to this.

It now turns out that Garland's son-in-law is the founder of Panorama
Education, a multi-million dollar company providing critical race
theory materials to 23,000 schools in the nation, funded by taxpayers.
Republicans are demanding all documents related to this situation, and
we assume Garland will refuse.

Reason #2: If a mom objects to teaching CRT, she could be reported
to the FBI by the school board, with serious consequences.

**** Gender fluidity

Just as bad as CRT is gender fluidity, which is probably the stupident
policy I've seen in my lifetime, and I've seen a lot of stupid
policies. According to this policy, any child can claim to be of
either gender, and take part in activities based on that gender.
So we have stories (reported only on Fox News) about "trans-gender"
boys joining girls teams and beating all the girls, because trans-gender
boys may claim to be girls,

Gender fluidity became Biden administration policy, which meant
that school boys could visit the girls bathrooms. Many people
were absolutely appalled by this (and rightly so, because this is
unbelievably stupid), and some pointed out that a girl could be
raped in the girls bathroom.

Reason #3: Gender fluidity is completely insane and repulsive, and
particularly exposes girls to sexual assault by boy pretending to be
girls.

**** Democrats and rape

Support for rape and rapists is a big part of the Democrat party
culture. During the slave era, slave owners could freely rape their
girl slaves. The Democrats wanted to continue slavery and were
bitterly vengeful when the Republicans freed the slaves and won the
Civil War. The Democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) so that they
could lynch young black boys and continue raping black girls, with
impunity. Democrats bitterly opposed the 1964 Civil Rights act.
Today, black women are raped far more often than white women. If
she's raped by a black man, she has to keep quiet, rather than get a
brother in trouble. If she's raped by a white man, it's sure to be a
Democrat, and she has to keep quiet, rather than have the community
lose its perks.

The most obvious example of the Democrat rape culture is Bill Clinton,
who was credibly charged of violent rape by a dozen women.

One was Juanita Broaddrick. Bill Clinton tricked her into his hotel
room by telling her it was for a business meeting. Then he bit her
lip hard enough to tear her lip and make it bleed, and promised not to
bite her lip any more if she complied with the rape. So Broaddrick
was forced to be raped and have sex with a painful, bleeding lip.
Then after she got dressed he decided he wanted to do it again --
raped her a second time with a painful, bleeding lip.

Bill Clinton is considered a god by the Democrats, and Hillary is
praised as some kind of feminist hero. This is so pathetic and
sickening it's hard believe it's happening.

Reason #4: Democrats support rape, when done by Democrats or in
support of Democrat policy

**** Rape in girls bathrooms in Loudon County, Va

Image
  • Cartoon: "Relax lady - I'm transgender" (WeaselZippers)


It has recently been revealed that in May of this year, a ninth-grade
girl was sexually assaulted in a girls bathroom by a "gender fluid"
boy wearing a skirt. Apparently she was terrorized and forced to
perform fellatio on the boy.

The girl's father, Scott Smith, reported this to Louden County
school board. They did nothing --- except to transfer the
boy to another school in Loudon County, where a little while
later he similarly assaulted another girl.

When the father, Scott Smith, attended a school board meeting
and was angry that the school board was doing nothing about
the violent attack on his daughter, the school board called in
security, threw the father to the ground, and dragged him off
to jail.

All of this only came out recently.

-- The Loudoun bathroom teen rape situation just keeps getting worse
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2021/10/16 ... se-n422796
(Hotair, 16-Oct-2021)

So two summarize: When the rape occurred and the father complained,
the boy was transferred to another school where he raped again,
and the father was arrested.

Reason #5: Two girls were actually raped in Loudon County, and
the boy wasn't prosecuted, to protect "gender fluidity" ideology,
but the girl's father was

**** Gardland's letter declaring moms 'domestic terrorists'

It was apparently the Loudon county incident that triggered Garland's
letter. The school board covered up the two rapes, had the father,
Scott Smith, arrested, and then asked the DOJ to protect them from
racists and domestic terrorists who complain about CRT. Garland
complied.

**** Why are women not returning to work?

The purpose of this essay was to comment on the question of
why people are not returning to work, and I based my reply
on a CNBC segment that said that it was women in particular
who are not returning to work.

There are some obvious reasons why mothers have decided to
home-school the kids, and that's simply because the teachers
unions and Biden administration are turning the public
schools into sewers. In particular:
  • Parents are appalled and disgusted by schools teaching
    children to hate each other and hate America.
  • Parents are also appalled by the disgusting "gender
    fluidity" policies that expose girls to rape and abuse.
  • Parents who complain are now threatened by being called racists
    and domestic terrorists.
What mother would want to send her children into that kind of sewer?
Excellent post, John. When we started homeschooling our boys in the early 2000s, about 2.5% of children were home-schooled. Post-Covid, that number is now 11.1%. The left has fallen victim to the law of unintended consequences.

A summary of everything you just said is something we discovered ages ago. A lot of parents are just discovering it now - if you are traditional, Christian, and believe in the Constitution (and in common sense), the left doesn't just disagree with you; they hate you. I personally know a lot of families that are making the sacrifice of downsizing, learning to live on one income, homeschooling their children, and re-learning skills of self-sufficiency that our forebears took for granted. Of course, they only look at it as sacrifice for a little while before seeing the great rewards.

While I see that most of the institutions of America have been corrupted and destroyed beyond repair - government, public education, professional sports, Boy Scouts, etc. - and I have a hard time picturing myself fighting to defend them, I do believe that the people who make this nation great are well worth it. I will stand with them.

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Good post JDav (John's was as well)

We are seeing the firstfruits of getting away from being traditional and understanding what it takes to form healthy families. The left sold everyone, and in particular women, a ton of lies and now they are trying to eat everyone alive with their chaos. Good for you, keep up the good work and tell everyone how much better life is with the proper focus, which is against materialism and rather, on God as the source of life.

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thinker wrote:
Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:59 am
Even in the lower level jobs that the boomers are leaving you don't need tech skills for example but you do need a certain level of communication skills that the illegals do not have.
I haven't talked about the issue of the illegals but I think the black pilled on this forum are missing something. Studies have shown that when the US economy goes into recession the illegals go back to their home countries in large numbers. Once the economic chaos begins most of them will be leaving back to their countries and the once that stay will leave once the war starts. Another issue is the automation of jobs that usually are the once that the illegals usually work , and with the shortage of employees this is another trend that will also accelerate. With these trends and issues I would not be surprised if the illegal immigration problem fixes itself. Some of you might say yeah but how about government handouts that can help the illegals stay here forever. Well that is not going to last forever, I am seeing even people who are left wingers now saying that we cannot continue to spend money like we have been doing and that is something I never thought I would see. Some of you might say well the Biden administration is going to help them, not if they loose support amongst their base and I can tell you from what I am seeing at my job that his support even amongst his base is collapsing, this administration is the gift that keeps on giving.
It is bizarre that in many ways the Trump presidency was a wake up, but it pumped the breaks on lefty madness so in some ways it was good and in others, bad - eventually we were going to have to get to the pits of real degenerate madness, which we now see. But like everything, no one really changes unless the money runs out or they come for your kids. Both are happening right now, but they can still prolong the money thing because of the history and foothold of the US economy/USD.

As Martin Armstrong shows over decades, the Dems hit lower highs and lower lows. Leftism always collapses, the problem is that they take so many people down with them, it's sick.

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** 18-Oct-2021 World View: At MIT, woke Twitter mob clashes with academic values

This controversy at MIT is of interest to me because I used to be an
MIT student, and because I live on the edge of the MIT campus. I
became aware of this controversy because MIT's president, L. Rafael
Reif, sent a letter to the entire MIT community, apologizing for the
controversy.

Professor Dorian Abbot of the University of Chicago had been invited
to give a lecture at MIT on October 21 on his research, titled
"Climate and the Potential for Life on Other Planets." And of course
anything to do with climate change, even on other planets, is
particularly important to the woke crowd since, after all, we're going
to die in nine years if we don't do as AOC and Biden demand.

However, in August, Abbot co-authored an opinion piece for Newsweek in
which they wrote that the "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)"
agenda in academia seeks to increase the representation of some groups
through discrimination against members of other groups, violates the
ethical and legal principle of equal treatment, compromises the
university’s mission, and undermines the public's trust in
universities and their graduates.

Here are some excerpts from the Newsweek article:
"American universities are undergoing a profound
transformation that threatens to derail their primary mission: the
production and dissemination of knowledge. The new regime is
titled "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" or DEI, and is enforced
by a large bureaucracy of administrators. Nearly every decision
taken on campus, from admissions, to faculty hiring, to course
content, to teaching methods, is made through the lens of
DEI. This regime was imposed from the top and has never been
adequately debated. In the current climate it cannot be openly
debated: the emotions around DEI are so strong that
self-censorship among dissenting faculty is nearly universal.

The words "diversity, equity and inclusion" sound just, and are
often supported by well-intentioned people, but their effects are
the opposite of noble sentiments. Most importantly, "equity" does
not mean fair and equal treatment. DEI seeks to increase the
representation of some groups through discrimination against
members of other groups. The underlying premise of DEI is that any
statistical difference between group representation on campus and
national averages reflects systemic injustice and discrimination
by the university itself. The magnitude of the distortions is
significant: for some job searches discrimination rises to the
level of implicitly or explicitly excluding applicants from
certain groups.

DEI violates the ethical and legal principle of equal
treatment. It entails treating people as members of a group rather
than as individuals, repeating the mistake that made possible the
atrocities of the 20th century. It requires being willing to tell
an applicant "I will ignore your merits and qualifications and
deny you admission because you belong to the wrong group, and I
have defined a more important social objective that justifies
doing so." It treats persons as merely means to an end, giving
primacy to a statistic over the individuality of a human
being. ...

Viewed objectively, American universities already are incredibly
diverse. They feature people from all countries, races and
ethnicities (for example, one of us was born and raised in Chile,
and is classified as Hispanic by his university). This is in stark
contrast with most universities in Europe, Asia and South
America. American universities are diverse not because of DEI, but
because they have been extremely competitive at attracting talent
from all over the world. Ninety years ago Germany had the best
universities in the world. Then an ideological regime obsessed
with race came to power and drove many of the best scholars out,
gutting the faculties and leading to sustained decay that German
universities never fully recovered from. We should view this as a
warning of the consequences of viewing group membership as more
important than merit, and correct our course before it is too
late."
The last paragraph, comparing to DEI activists to Nazis, must have
been particularly infuriating to the woke crowd.

So the lecture was canceled, thanks to attacks by what Abbot describes
as a "Twitter mob."

What's interesting is that Abbot has apparently received a great deal
of support, perhaps even more supporters than people in the Twitter
mob. My guess is that this is true because the controversy is a
conflict between two woke programs -- climate change and
Stalinism/Fascism. I gather that Abbot's work on climate change is so
advanced that the climate change side had an advantage over the
Stalinist/Fascist side.

The result is that Abbot has been invited to give his lecture
internally at MIT, and also Princeton University has invited him to
gave the same lecture over Zoom. According to news reports, thousands
of people have signed up to watch the Princeton lecture. Who wouldn't
want to see a lecture on climate change on other planets?

I do believe that the loony trend is reversing. It's been going on at
least since the 2000s, when Obama and Biden started using the
"teabagger" epithet to refer to political enemies, so it won't reverse
overnight, though Biden's presidency has been and is so thoroughly and
incredibly disastrous, that the reversal is occurring more rapidly
than might otherwise have been expected.

MIT is debating academic values versus loony woke policies. It's a
good debate because there is some value to the loony work policies.
However, the fact that there's a debate at all is a sign that the
reversal is in progress.

---- Sources:

-- Dorian S. Abbot / Ivan Marinovic / The Diversity Problem on Campus
| Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-prob ... on-1618419
(Newsweek, 12-Aug-2021)

-- EAPS department annual Carlson Lecture canceled over speaker Dorian
Abbot’s comments on DEI
https://thetech.com/2021/10/14/carlson- ... ncellation
(The Tech, MIT, 14-Oct-2021)

-- L. Rafael Reif / To the members of the MIT community,
http://mit.imodules.com/controls/email_ ... 4ddc5d4b28
(MIT, 18-Oct-2021)

-- Dorian Abbot / Princeton welcomes professor whose lecture was
canceled at MIT
https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/10/17 ... princeton/
(BostonHerald, 17-Oct-2021)

---- Related article:

** 30-Jun-19 World View -- MIT criticizes 'toxic atmosphere' targeting Chinese students
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e190630

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Don't we need to see evidence of strong, disciplined leadership to see real change in this regard? I don't see that as the current culture at universities, which is rather repugnant, to say the least.

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thomasglee wrote:
Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:20 am
Jack Edwards wrote:
Sun Oct 17, 2021 8:56 pm
Thinker wrote:
As usual I am interested in what are the opinions and thoughts of the other forum members.
To be sure, an element of the worker shortage is people retiring early and to John's point, many women are prioritizing child rearing over being employed. But, the comment I hear over and over again from manufacturers in flyover country is: "Nobody wants to work", and then this is followed with stories of employees who quit to collect welfare checks. So, that too is an element of the worker shortage. Being in manufacturing, the work is physical, dirty, hot/cold. It's work. There is a segment of society which will default to laziness when they can get away with it. And we gave them all an excuse with Covid to not do hard work. I have no idea how they are getting on as some of these benefits are expiring, but sure seems like a lot of folks are choosing to voluntarily not work. Universally businesses are complaining they can't find good help.

The type of worker manufacturing is going after generally aren't you're aging boomers or younger mom's, so your or John's conclusions may very well be accurate - it's just not what I see in manufacturing.

Now... these OSHA covid testing mandates and federal contractor vax mandates the D's are pushing are going to further exacerbate this problem. Most manufacturers have pursued lean, just-in-time operating philosophies over the past decade and were not over staffed before Covid. They are barely making it now. Workers are enormously pissed at being told they need to vax and another not insignificant portion will leave the workforce. It's close to the point where things just won't work anymore if businesses lose more people, there just won't be enough and supply chains will be devastated.

It's going to get uglier I'm afraid.

Regards,
Jack
I work in MFG too and up until about this past July, we couldn't even get people to apply, much less work. Recently we have been able to hire and they're working out well, but it is too early to see if they'll stick around. To attract employees we have had to offer some incentives such as higher than we used to pay wages, full-time benefits for a 30 hour work-week, overtime to those willing to work, 14 days PTO on top of our normal holiday days off, and we promote ourselves as a "second chance, felon friendly" employer ".

Now, having said that, to pay for such we have had to automate some of our back-office operations to help us cut back on administrative costs.

If you think things like 14 days of PTO, offering benefits, and paying an above minimum wage are “above and beyond” then you were stuck in a time-warp. No one is going to degrade themselves to make peanuts in the hopes of “proving themselves” or “working their way up.” I’ve been there and time and time again I’ve learned there is zero loyalty in any business, that you need to lock-in what you want before day 1 or you are stuck chasing. People used to grow with a company and get the 40-year employment watch and party. Now people are lucky if they stay somewhere for 4 years.

Another aspect of this not talked about is young men are simply choosing not to participate in life the way they used to. Divorce will ruin a modern American man, as will kids out of wedlock. Fathers are looked at as imbeciles. Colleges can’t find men to enroll, but do nothing to help men. When colleges try to help men, faculty and students revolt at “patriarchy” - Wall St. Journal did a great article on this:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-un ... 1630948233

Out of my group of 10 male friends, only 5 of us are married, only 3 have kids, only 1 has multiple kids. Those who are single choose to stay single and live their lives the way they want. It’s not hard to find a woman to warm your bed with according to them. They would rather pursue what they want and participate in the workforce how and when they want then be “stuck” like I am having a wife and kid to provide for and needing the stability of a 9-5 job. You might think this is a minority of young men but it is a significant minority that is definitely part of the disappearing workforce.

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Zoomer go Brr wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:14 pm

If you think things like 14 days of PTO, offering benefits, and paying an above minimum wage are “above and beyond” then you were stuck in a time-warp.
Do you always make wrong assumptions?
Psalm 34:4 - “I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.”

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thomasglee wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:21 pm
Zoomer go Brr wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:14 pm

If you think things like 14 days of PTO, offering benefits, and paying an above minimum wage are “above and beyond” then you were stuck in a time-warp.
Do you always make wrong assumptions?
You seriously think people want to work somewhere where they only get federal holidays off and lose income because they want a vacation or a sick day? You said 14 days on top of holidays implying you gave zero time off outside of holidays.

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Zoomer go Brr wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:53 pm
thomasglee wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:21 pm
Zoomer go Brr wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:14 pm

If you think things like 14 days of PTO, offering benefits, and paying an above minimum wage are “above and beyond” then you were stuck in a time-warp.
Do you always make wrong assumptions?
You seriously think people want to work somewhere where they only get federal holidays off and lose income because they want a vacation or a sick day? You said 14 days on top of holidays implying you gave zero time off outside of holidays.
They get 10 paid holidays, their birthday (floating - take when they want), plus 14 additional days of paid time off.

Most of our workers are females and they appreciate the 8:30 to 2:30 shift that gives them 30 hours of work per week, plus full-time benefits. That schedule allows them to drop their children off at school before they have to be at work and leave in time to pick them up.

Our company is not a large company (about 40 employees), but the work environment is good (they work in air-conditioned cleanrooms) and so overall, it's not a bad gig. Sure, I wish I could pay my workers more, but we are constrained by the market. For low-skilled, low-educated job-seekers, we offer a pretty good program. We also pay 85% of their health benefits costs and we do NOT require vaccinations.
Psalm 34:4 - “I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.”

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