The America Works Report: Quantifying the Nation's Workforce Crisis We hear every day from our member companies—of every size and industry, across nearly every state—that they’re facing unprecedented challenges trying to find workers to fill jobs. But just how widespread is this problem? Which states and which sectors have been hit the hardest? And how do we begin to address this national economic crisis and put more Americans back to work? That’s what we set out to discover. By analyzing more than two decades worth of federal jobs and employment data and conducting surveys of top industry association economists and local and state chamber of commerce leaders across the country, we examined the current state of the American workforce and the monumental challenges employers are facing across the country.