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Despite paying its employees no less than $15 an hour, Hope Haven Area Development Center is struggling to fill its job openings.
At full staffing, Hope Haven, which provides opportunities and services to people with disabilities in Des Moines, Henry, Lee and Louisa counties, employs about 300 people in the quad-county area.
According to its website, about 50 of those jobs, with starting pay ranging between $15 to $19 per hour, remain unfilled.
The requirements for the majority of its full- and part-time positions, which include direct support professional and job coach, Hope Haven Executive Director Bob Bartles said, are a high school diploma or equivalent, the ability to pass a drug test and background check, a valid driver s license, and the ability to be kind and caring.
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The data continues to be affected by the pandemic, comparisons to the recession one year ago, and now inflation. Inflation is now seriously impacting growth,
Analyst Opinion of Personal Income and Expenditures
The note from the BEA says it all:
The estimate for April personal income and outlays was impacted by the continued government response to COVID-19. Economic impact payments associated with the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (which was enacted on March 11, 2021) continued but were at a lower level than in March. The full economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be quantified in the personal income and outlays estimate because the impacts are generally embedded in source data and cannot be separately identified.