Combine the posts above and you have the bigger picture of the problem nationwide. It's a mismatch of jobs for the available and willing workforce. Too many people don't want to WORK to collect a paycheck. Or they don't know how to do basic tasks and are not willing or able to learn.

When I started, I would take any job I could find whether it was assembling bowling trophies or scooping and stacking red hot steel pieces as they dropped from behind a forging hammer. I didn't really care.

Today, nobody would be willing to either for less than $20/hr while I was doing it for $5 or $6