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Mike Rowe blames labor shortage on American society looking down on hard work
Mike Rowe said that the massive worker shortage undermining America's economic recovery is due to people looking down on jobs involving hard work.
The former "Dirty Jobs" star made his comments on Fox News on Thursday.
"There's something in us, it's the fault in our stars, you know, where we begin to resent the very thing we rely upon," said Rowe.
"My career has been spent mostly trying to find the workers who are out of sight and therefore out of mind, just tapping the country on the shoulder and saying, 'hey! What about him? What about her? Check these guys out,'" he added.
Labor shortages across the country have hamstrung companies trying to meet the increased demand as the pandemic recedes and Americans go back to living life. Average wages have risen as a response, but skyrocketing inflation is also taking a toll.
"Look this whole problem, this disconnect, this skills gap, 11 million open jobs, this isn't a mystery. This is a reflection of what we value," Rowe continued.
"And our country has become disconnected from the kinds of jobs that you're talking about right now. We're not properly gobsmacked when we turn on the switch and the lights turn on, or when we flush the toilet and it all goes away," he said.
"So it's no great mystery why our kids aren't eager to fill these positions, we take them for granted, ourselves," he concluded.
Rowe went on to say that even people who value labor generally don't want their children to become welders or truck drivers, despite the opportunity to earn great wages working those jobs.
The economic recovery has been stymied by a lack of workers, a trend that some economists are calling "the Great Resignation." Many Republicans believed that generous unemployment benefits were keeping people from going back to work but the problem has continued long after those benefits were ended.
Here's the video of Rowe's comments:
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Video shows woman pulling a gun from her purse after Chipotle tried to close early: 'Somebody better give me my food!'
A woman who was irate that a Chipotle restaurant was closing early pulled a gun from her purse and demanded that employees finish her order.
The shocking incident unfolded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at about 5 p.m. on Saturday and was caught on surveillance video.
The woman can be seen on the video reaching into her purse and grabbing a handgun after a manager says he told her that the restaurant would have to close early because of staffing shortages.
The customers were instructed to order online because they were closing the lobby, but the woman demanded that they make her food before closing.
Police say the woman told the employees there would be "a problem" if her order wasn't completed.
She allegedly said, "somebody better give me my food!" and showed her gun a second time after they made her order.
The employee alerted mall security during the incident by pressing an emergency button, but the woman was able to leave with her order and escape.
Police said the woman left without paying for her food, and she could face armed robbery charges for doing so. They are asking for help from the public to identify either the woman or the man next to her in the video.
The United States is experiencing a nationwide shortage of workers after the lockdown from the coronavirus pandemic. Some economists blame the lack of workers on the increased unemployment benefits passed by local and federal governments, but others say the causes are more complex.
A survey in July found that nearly 2 million workers turned down work in favor of receiving unemployment benefits instead. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blamed the worker shortage on the restrictive immigration policies of former President Donald Trump.
Here's the video of the shocking incident:
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Guy Fieri explains why he's 'pissed' at politicians and what the government needs to stop doing to help restaurants
TV chef Guy Fieri is furious with members of Congress and lobbyists in Washington, D.C., whom he blames for failing to provide more help to the ill-faring American restaurant industry.
Speaking with New York Times reporter Kara Swisher on her podcast, "Sway," Fieri said he is "pissed" that bars and restaurants had to wait for the sixth COVID-19 relief bill to receive aid from the federal government while well-connected big businesses like the airline industry were targeted for immediate direct aid.
"I mean, I'm pissed. It's because there's not enough unification," Fieri said. "We all love each other in the restaurant business. We're all chefs together and so forth. But airlines have big powerful money and attorneys and lobbyists. And we've got home-built restaurant companies that were passed down from a restaurant, that were passed down from generations, with not as much energy and power and unification."
The Food Network host and self-proclaimed mayor of Flavortown has been a relentless advocate for struggling restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic. Last year, he partnered with the National Restaurant Association to provide grants to restaurant workers in dire financial straits, raising over $25 million for people who may have lost their jobs or had reduced hours because of state-mandated coronavirus restrictions.
According to the National Restaurant Association, more than 8 million restaurant employees were laid off or furloughed and the industry lost $280 billion in sales during the first 13 months of the pandemic. An estimated 90,000 restaurants and bars temporarily or permanently closed last year, and these businesses are still facing difficulties complicated by worker shortages, supply issues with some foods, and high levels of demand they are not able to meet, leaving customers unsatisfied with their service. Overall, the industry is still down by about 1.5 million jobs from where it was in March 2020.
Business Insider reported that before March 2020, restaurants employed more than 13 million people nationwide, while the airline industry provided jobs for just under 600,000 people. But airlines got a $25 billion targeted bailout from Congress in mid-March, while restaurants had to wait a year for $28.6 billion in relief from President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan.
"The only advocacies we really have working for us are our state associations, like California Restaurant Association and National Restaurant Association," Fieri said.
"And I think it has to do with anything we see in government and politics and so forth," he added. "It's loud voice, power, and money."
Though Fieri was critical of policymakers, he emphasized that it's the responsibility of individual Americans to stand up and make a difference when the system fails people in need.
"Listen, I'm a huge patriot. I love our country. I'm so proud that we get to have what we have. I don't think everybody appreciates it to the level that we should appreciate it. But I sure wish we could react quicker," he said. "I don't know. I'm not on that side of it. So I'm not going to point fingers. As opposed to sitting here running my mouth about it, I'm just going to go do something about it."
Swisher asked Fieri to weigh in on the controversy surrounding tech companies with food delivery apps cutting into restaurant profits with high delivery fees and whether he thinks the government should do more on behalf of restaurants.
"I hate regulations. I'm not a big fan of rules. I think that all of a sudden government jumps in and makes certain groups can't work together and all this kind of stuff," Fieri said, suggesting it would be better for a philanthropist to start a nonprofit food delivery service to help restaurants rather than have the government intervene.
If he were to speak to a lawmaker, "I'd say you put regulations on everybody for everything," he explained. "And forever, it's been impossible — especially in certain states, certain counties — impossible to get liquor delivered. When this all happened and things are blowing up and people are sinking, all of a sudden, people started figuring out, well, wait a second. ... We can do this."
While Fieri was encouraged by how some states lifted unnecessary regulations on the restaurant industry, like prohibitions on delivering alcohol, he wondered why the government hasn't gone further.
"How did that get done so quickly without anybody really having to go bang on doors about it? You know what it was — bunch of legislators, bunch of people that were in power, saying, wait a second. We do see that the restaurants are suffering. We do see that this need is there," Fieri said.
"But if we have the ability to move that quickly, let's continue."
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