Shortage of workers in the state results from COVID-19, plus an aging population
by Gordon L. Weil - Maine Monitor
Help wanted.
These words are usually a sign of prosperity and opportunity. Now they are a symbol of frustration as employers search in vain for workers.
The conventional wisdom had been that when COVID-19 cases went down, so would unemployment. Some maintained that federal unemployment benefits were discouraging people from job seeking, but that would change once the benefits ended.