Labor shortage pinches, vexes restaurateurs across Nebraska, country (Omaha World-Herald)

TL;DR version: A lot of the restaurateurs they interviewed blamed unemployment benefits as the reason they couldn’t get workers. (Hint, it’s not the unemployment.)

Nebraska has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation.

One restaurateur complained a new factory set up near his restaurant and offered better wages and a hiring bonus, and his entire staff quit the same day. (How does capitalism work? Maybe pay your staff better than the ridiculously low tipped minimum wage.)

The Nebraska Restaurant Association says they’ve tried to get meetings with Nebraska’s three representatives and two senators to make immigration law easier, but only Ben Sasse met with them over that.