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Lauren Verno<\/a><\/span>, Consumer investigative reporter
Published:\u00a0Lauren Verno<\/a><\/span>, Consumer investigative reporter
The president announced Friday that 431,000 jobs were added in March <\/a>and unemployment numbers are just above a 50-year low. While that is good news for job seekers, many businesses are struggling to keep their doors open, not because of COVID-19 but because of a lack of staff.
Many business owners have no choice but to use temporary hours, many times having to step in themselves to go from boss to worker, like Manali Patel, who wears many hats throughout the day.
She helps make the salads at a Tossgreen location in Downtown Jacksonville. She also helps take calls and run the cash register.
But her actual title:
\u201cI\u2019m the owner and president of the company,\u201d Patel said.
Patel owns three Tossgreen locations, and all of them have temporary hours.
\u201cWe are getting busier than before. Like we are now getting to where we want to be, but you don\u2019t have enough people to sell them,\u201d Patel said.
President Joe Biden touted his administration\u2019s jobs numbers Friday, saying the recovery has now created 7.9 million jobs.
\u201cMore jobs created over the first 14 months of any presidency in any term ever. And that is striking. But what\u2019s even more striking is this, in March, the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, down from 6.4% when I took office 15 months ago, the fastest unemployment (drop) ever recorded,\u201d Biden said.
But Patel said her small business is competing with all the others for the same worker.
\u201cSo there\u2019s always someone next door who\u2019s going to offer more. So yeah it\u2019s really hard for the small businesses,\u201d Patel said.
And that means keeping up with pay.
Over the past year, the average paycheck has increased by 5.6%: one of the fastest increases since the early \u201980s.
Another reason why there\u2019s no better time than now if you\u2019re looking for a job — but not necessarily if you\u2019re a business owner.
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Lauren Verno anchors the 9 a.m. hour of The Morning Show and is the consumer investigative reporter weekday afternoons.
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