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Letter: Requiring work would help to fill empty jobs
0820-WORKERS
A “Now Hiring” sign is seen outside of the Cook Out restaurant in Gainesville. - photo by David Barnes
In reading the Sunday article, “Workers hard to find” I couldn’t find anywhere in the story that would point the finger at lack of participation in the workforce as a reason. If you had studied the problem, you would have found that 55 percent of male workers ages 18 to 55, the prime workers’ ages, are not looking for jobs. Could that be the problem?