Immigrants important to filling jobs left open during the pandemic
4 Jun 2023
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For the past three years, ever since the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I have heard people lament the lack of employees in every business from bars to restaurants to hospitals to meat packing plants.
Right after they get through bemoaning everything no longer available because of employee shortages, they segue into how there's plenty of able-bodied people out there who just refuse to work because they'd rather sit on their butts receiving government handouts.
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