The US public sector’s scramble to find workers is going to come to the public school system by the end of the northern hemisphere summer. The reasons go back as far as the 2008 financial crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic and broader dynamics in the labour market right now. School districts should act now to bolster pay so that in a few months they’re not going through the same kind of extreme labour shortages being experienced by the hospitality industry.
Outside of leisure and hospitality, it’s education that’s dealing with the largest employment shortfall related to the pandemic. From peak to trough, state and local government education shed more than a million jobs, and as of April’s employment report the shortfall is still 900,000 workers...
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