Washington Post: These businesses found a way around the worker shortage: Raising wages to $15 an hour or more
By Eli Rosenberg
Washington Post, June 10, 2021
... Across the country, businesses in sectors such as food service and manufacturing that are trying to staff up have been reporting an obstacle to their success — a scarcity of workers interested in applying for low-wage positions. ...
The experience of 12 business operators interviewed by The Washington Post who raised their minimum wage in the last year points to another element of the equation: the central role that pay — specifically a $15-an-hour minimum starting wage — plays in attracting workers right now. ...
One of the...