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visit purple.com forward slash undistracted. acted. Hey y'all it's Brittany so there have been a lot of stories lately about restaurant owners bemoaning the fact that they

can't find employees. Republicans have been talking up this so-called labor shortage in an effort to cast government

support as the culprit. You know it's the old people don't want to work because

they're getting a free ride kind of reasoning. I guess they just

can't imagine any other reason why no one is lining up for these low-paid

often part-time jobs with high risk and literally zero benefits.

Y'all this is not about a shortage of workers, this is about a shortage of fair wages.

Many, many restaurant professionals who are disproportionately women and people of color

live in poverty or near poverty and they're not looking for a handout, they're just unwilling to risk their health. not to

mention,

mention, according to one fair wage, more than half

of unemployed restaurant workers didn't even get employment insurance during the

pandemic because their pay was too low to qualify.

You want people to go back to work?

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