There is, however, a shortage of jobs paying sufficient wages to attract workers to fill job openings
When a public problem is wrongly described, the solutions posed often turn out to be irrelevant or inhumane.
A current example: America’s so-called “labor shortage”.
Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com
