JFF CEO Maria Flynn recently published an op-ed in Barron’s in which she argued that the infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden recently signed into law could make the labor crisis worse.
“While there are plenty of reasons to praise the plan, there’s a catch,” she wrote. “Because we’re about to create hundreds of thousands of jobs without preparing anyone to fill them.”
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