Born N Bled Red

Government unemployment isn't the reason jobs aren't getting filled in Nebraska.

In some places of the country that might be appropriate.

I'd add to since you seem to want to believe that I'm discussing in absolutisms about employers. I know there are good employers that treat their employees very well. I called out specifically the Wal-Mart's and Amazon's of the world, who rely on corporate welfare, shipping jobs overseas, pay such a wage that their employees require government assistance to make ends meet. If you don't fall into this category, it wasn't about you.

Kudos for the honesty. Just don't whine about the quality of employee you attract then or the ability to retain them then, I guess. Good luck to you and your company.

Ha - you're the one who said you were going to hire a high schooler to work in your restaurant, I just told you that you wouldn't find one to do so. I'm all for high schoolers working. The reality is, they don't at least not to the level that existed 20 years ago. They are all too wrapped up in sports and other activities.

Freemarket. Pay more they will get filled. The fact is, a large reason there is such a shortage of employees is because wages haven't kept up to allow people to comfortably raise families. 18 years of raising your future employee is pretty darn expensive. If my job doesn't pay enough to do so, you're going to have fewer future employees.

Your three were? How long ago was this? And a summer detasseling job is not the same as a regular, year round, part time job that one would find in your proposed restaurant.

I absolutely agree our economy is way too service based. But, unfortunately that is the only industry we're left with when other sectors have shipped all the other jobs overseas to cut costs and line the pockets of the wealthy. Eventually the money made in America has to get back to the American people in order to sustain our population. The wealthy and corporations remove that money from the economy by 1) Hoarding it (both accumulation and refusing to pay living wages to employees) and 2) shipping it overseas.

High schoolers don't work any more, sorry, but its the truth. Try finding a babysitter let alone hiring one for a job. A cook won't work for that much, and 3) the $10 an hour wage for tipped staff doesn't account for the totality of the compensation, so no it does no such thing as nullify the first 2. Secondly, you bet the market dictated that you needed to increase your expected wages. Just like it is doing all across the country right now. However now all we hear is about is unemployment ruining the job market. Funny how "the market" is amazing until the people in power/ with wealth are the ones who lose due to "the market."

Having worked in the restaurant industry in the last 10 years, 1) you're not going to get part-time high school help; 2) you won't be able to keep a cook at that wage (maybe a felon, ex con, or drug addict that can keep it straight for a bit, if you're lucky) 3) That's be a damn good wage for tipped waitstaff and bartenders.

Cost of living is different throughout the nation a flat dollar amount isn't realistic nationwide. Do you feel a person who works 40 hrs week should have to be on welfare, be accused of being a welfare king/queen, be maligned in the media and right wing pundits regularly, be unable to afford to maintain their own health and that of their family due to the high cost of healthcare, and be ultimately made to feel worthless due to working for an employer that refuses to pay a decent wage?

Look I appreciate your defense of a $15/ hr starting wage as it is generally as it's pretty close to Average (though slightly below) in Nebraska. Meaning there are a lot of jobs that pay worse. https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Hourly-Salary--in-Nebraska I also appreciate your defense of B.B. Hemmingway. Clearly you feel I unfairly called him out. My comment was on the wage he presented, not his business in specifics, though I can see how it could be read that way. That being said, when I was 20 years old, working for $15/ hour part-time in hog confinements working my way though college, I felt it was a fair wage given the part time nature of the work and the skills necessary to complete the job. It certainly would not have been a wage I could have afforded to work for, if I had say gotten a girl pregnant at senior prom and entered the workforce fulltime rather than go to college. That was nearly 20 years ago. Adjusted for inflation, that same $15 an hour, which was fair in 2004, would need to be $21.21 now to equal the same value for the same work. https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2004?amount=15 So tell me, use the inflation calculator I've linked here, put in your hourly wage, the year you worked for that wage, and todays year. Did you really work for less than $15/ hr?

Do you work for $15 / hr?

You said " Maybe there's people who have jobs that shouldn't be getting the government assistance they are getting." I agreed with you and provided examples of government assistance that people with jobs shouldn't be getting. Not sure how that is "jumping all over the place."

Oh I agree, tax breaks for the top 1% grind my gears too. As to corporate tax loopholes that decrease their tax burden to 0. There is no doubt in my mind there are people getting government assistance they don't need or deserve.

The truth about wages is that every employer's starting wage will be only enough to entice employees to work for them over others, not necessarily what the employees are worth or the value of their efforts to the company.

No employee who works full time should qualify for federal assistance. If they do qualify for federal assistance, the amount of federal assistance paid to the employee should be directly added on to the employers annual tax bill.

I haven't worked for $15 an hour since I was 20 years old. You're asking people to raise families on that?

Hey, you know what would make more people pay into taxes- actually paying them a living wage for a 40 hour work week! Amazing how any discussion about poor people can come back to rich a-holes taking advantage of the poor to line their own pockets. Looking at you Walton family, Bezos, etc.

Nah, he was just helping to move a chair into the chamber because the tour guide had been on their feet for too long and needed a place to sit while delivering information about the capitol to the tourists. I mean, come on, obvious picture there. See the incredible focus on their faces, great to see congressmen so concerned about the welfare of others....... "insert sarcasm emogi here.

How is publishing this not a "death threat" that would warrant a visit from the secret service???

Well, are you vaccinated, didn't the CDC just say vaccinated people don't need masks. Is life slowly returning to normal? Love the snark, but

He beat the Corona virus, ensured a well planned, effective vaccine rollout, and was able to reopen the economy. You know, the good things that made it possible for people to be normal again rather than be locked in their house. I guess you could say Trump was responsible for lowering the gas price at the cost of 500,000 American lives, and a lost year for every American, including children who missed out on school and athletic and other extracurricular opportunities that they will never get back. Woot woot - go Trump, thanks for the low gas price too bad I couldn't go anywhere to benefit from it.

Come on guys, it's bad enough they are pre-season top ten. I refuse to remember that this game happened and Niles Paul has tiny hands that can't hold onto the ball while he runs with out anyone chasing him.

Never happened. I think that was the Lincoln Northstar game.