Why Aren't Jobs Being Filled? Some Say Unemployment Aid, Others Virus

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says fear of COVID, lack of daycare influencing job market more than $300 payments.

“My biggest problem is staffing right now," Jo Marie Scaglia, owner and creator of The Mixx and Caffetteria, said. "We are probably understaffed by 30 percent." “Not a lot of people are walking through our doors to take some jobs that we desperately want to give this community," David Lopez, General Manger of Manny's Mexican Restaurant, said. A recent jobs report fell short of expectations for the Biden administration, with only about a quarter of the 1 million new positions that were expected to be filled.