Most of the talking points about the current worker shortage play to conservative messaging about lazy folks living off the government teat, but Eau Claire's own Zoe Roberts, county board representative for District 27, has written a powerful column in the Eau Claire Leader Telegram about the causes of the worker shortages which counters the conservative doctrines. Zoe addresses less-examined causes like boomer retirements, our disastrous immigration policies, and the dictates of corporate profits. Zoe's degree in marketing and work in international logistics provided her some insights that are valuable in seeing the bigger causes, mostly ignored by conservatives. Zoe is adept at seeing beyond the mainstream explanations for our system, in part because she is a trans-woman, and was, at the time she took office, only the 21st trans person in elected office in the USA. Zoe also works with Citizen Action of Northwestern Wisconsin. Another article debunking the causes of the labor shortage is from The Orlando Weekly.
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