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Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and cohost of the Pitchfork Economics podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein.
In the latest episode, they spoke with Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute.
Shierholz says if businesses and politicians want more people to go back to work, they need to raise wages.
According to Google Trends, searches including the words labor shortage have skyrocketed in the United States over the past month. The term first began to spread on social media in April, when people shared photos of handmade signs at fast food restaurants apologizing for slow service and complaining that no one wants to work anymore. Those signs inspired a spate of news stories investigating the so-called labor shortage, and then Republican governors of 23 states used those stories as an excuse to end the additional $300 per week unemployment insurance that Congress ena