A limited supply of qualified workers poses a challenge as facilities are built around the world to bolster the supply of semiconductors.

While the coronavirus pandemic shuttered restaurants and battered the Mid-Atlantic crab industry last year, 2021 has brought more bad news: skyrocketing prices due to a severe shortage of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. The cause of the shortage is something of a mystery.

We summarize five studies on issues facing the trucking workforce, including pay, working conditions and whether the labor market is broken.

Drivers told Motherboard they're never coming back because of horrific working conditions before and during the pandemic.

No matter what you call it, hiring is difficult right now and seems to be especially difficult in the food and beverage service industry. Anecdotes abound about understaffed restaurants struggling to hire, workers pivoting from food service to new industries, and new incentives being offered to entice workers. Whether you choose to call it a labor shortage or a great realignment of labor, changes happening in the industry today will reverberate for years to come.

The broad economy has yet to show signs of a serious worker shortage, economists say. But in some narrow pockets, from sawmills to psychologists’ offices, employers are raising wages significantly and seeing little response.