re: Why are so many employers not able to get or keep employees?

If we ended welfare people would go back to work. Its hard for businesses to compete with the money printing federal government.

But ending that program would result in more tax payers and less tax takers so the budget would be better.

And the extra money we save from having to pay leaches to sit on their asses could be used for new shiny prisons, to house the people who dont want to work and would rather steal stuff.

Its a win\win\win.