I know that we have been experiencing a shortage of workers in our community, and that businesses have been offering many incentives in an attempt to keep and recruit new workers.  Most of these incentives can include signing bonuses or earlier acceptance into the health insurance policy at work.

There was an article today that indicated that the shortage of workers was even spreading to industries that you would never consider to have worker shortages.  A good example was the shortage of circus and fire entertainers.  This has caused many circuses to drop acts and venues altogether as they don’t have the manpower to do it.

Even though there is this shortage, there seems to be no one that can come up with a solution.  I wonder how long the worker shortage will last - we might just end up seeing businesses closing doors due to lack of staff.