The Current Kalamazoo Worker Shortage Is Temporary Or A Crisis? I got an email today from a local organization that's looking for volunteers for a major public event coming up in a week to two. And it got to me thinking, are we fully grasping what is going on in our society and economy? Have we "priced" ourselves out of our previous life? I, like so many people, complain about, for example, the lack of festivals. But festival these days require either temporary workers or volunteers. Well, if you can't get enough volunteers, then you have to hire temps of some sort. But adding to the problem is that temp agencies can't get enough good people. And if you're hiring temps, you're raising your cost of doing business. Then the question becomes, how much are people will to pay? I thought festivals, as one example, were already pretty pricey.