is resulting in slightly higher wages. but on the other hand we have small businesses having trouble hiring people. some people say if you just paid them more wages you would hire them. but other says say it is because of the supplementalary unemployment insurance they re getting. what is your take. this is one of the biggest economic conundrums for years now. we ve seen a booming economy but wages at the lower end of the scale has been stubborn and as we have discussed before, average american families are not earning any more than they did 30 or 40 years ago and prices of everything have gone up. so this is been a big issue. and what intrigues me is listening to this debate about whether enhanced federal benefits like the unemployment insurance benefit is harming employers ability to hire and the force to wages that people could make money by not working and it is interesting that people are seeking that as a