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Why so many help-wanted signs?

Why so many help-wanted signs?

There’s this oddity in Hidalgo County — okay, one of many. We have a current unemployment rate of 6.8 percent, according to county data, compared to approximately 16.1 in late May 2020, when COVID was really starting to kick us in the... Yet, there are still so many businesses I visit that have “Help Wanted” signs taped to their respective front doors.So if Hidalgo County has such a low unemployment rate, why are there so many such signs? Have we simply bottomed out at 6.8-percent unemployment and there are no more good workers to be had?Retail stores, restaurants, convenience stores,

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