A King County nonprofit raised all staff salaries to $70,000 minimum. Will more organizations follow? [seattletimes.com]

Karen Clemmer 11/18/214:00 AM

By Naomi Ishisaka, Photo: Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, November 15, 2021

Over the past few months, conventional wisdom has emerged asserting that the U.S. is experiencing a labor shortage.

A headline in Fortune on Friday read, “Where are all the workers, and when are they coming back?” Countless articles have lamented the “great resignation” facing the U.S. workforce and theorized over the causes. Some attribute it to expanded pandemic unemployment benefits, but research does not bear that out as the driving cause.

Now, a new idea is emerging, and one that could have a significant effect on economic justice and wealth inequality for future generations: there is not a labor shortage as much as people are no longer willing to take low-paying jobs in which they cannot earn a living wage.

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