Just pay them more!

That was President Biden’s advice to struggling restaurant owners that are experiencing a labor shortage after a year of nearly going out of business due to the pandemic. During a CNN town hall event, President Biden responded to a restaurant owner struggling to hire new workers as the county pulls itself out of the pandemic that he should simply pay workers more or continue to struggle.

According to The Daily Wire:

The entire industry, amongst other industries, continue to struggle to find employees. How do you and the Biden administration plan to incentivize those that haven’t returned to work yet? Hiring is our top priority right now.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, two things. One, if you notice, we kept you open. We spent billions of dollars to make sure restaurants could stay open. And — and a lot of people who now — who work as waiters and waitresses decided that they don’t want to do that anymore because there’s other opportunities and higher wages, because there’s a lot of openings now in jobs. And people are beginning to move — beginning to move.

There’s some evidence that maintaining the ability to continue not — to not have your — have to pay your rent so you don’t get thrown out, and being able to provide for unemployment insurance, has kept people from going back to work. There’s no — not much distinction between not going back to work in a restaurant and not going back to work at a — at a factory.

So people are looking to change opportunities, change what they’re doing.

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Great advice Biden.