{"id":185426,"date":"2014-11-25T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/25\/least-surprising-headline-of-this-week\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T02:43:00","slug":"least-surprising-headline-of-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/25\/least-surprising-headline-of-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Least Surprising Headline of this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-11-24\/the-tech-worker-shortage-doesnt-really-exist\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">The Tech Worker Shortage Doesn&#8217;t Really Exist<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014Businessweek<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After the lede comes something that I have been saying for years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThere\u2019s no evidence of any way, shape, or form that there\u2019s a shortage in the conventional sense,\u201d says Hal Salzman, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University. \u201cThey may not be able to find them at the price they want. But I\u2019m not sure that qualifies as a shortage, any more than my not being able to find a half-priced TV.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All about a labor shortage in tech is not about a real labor shortage, it&#8217;s about creating a captive low wage workforce.<\/p>\n<p>F%$# that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tech Worker Shortage Doesn&#8217;t Really Exist \u2014Businessweek After the lede comes something that I have been saying for years: \u201cThere\u2019s no evidence of any way, shape, or form that there\u2019s a shortage in the conventional sense,\u201d says Hal Salzman, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University. \u201cThey may not be able &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,973,975,1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-economy","category-employment","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}