As we enter the second half of 2022, American businesses are still struggling with a crippling labor shortage that is strangling supply chains and hampering retail and service industries. The findings of economic researchers aren’t surprising. In Massachusetts, demographers have long warned of the combined, detrimental impact on our state’s economy of retiring baby boomers and low birth rates during the Great Recession. We are feeling that pain now.
The pandemic caused further disruptions. Across…
