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NPR: Finding workers is harder than ever

By NPR.

Published Aug. 22, 2021. Updated Aug. 22 at 8:15 am

Employees, wearing protective face masks, cleans restaurant's tables at Germany's largest theme park 'Europa-Park' in Rust, north of Freiburg im Breisgau, on May 20, 2021 on the eve of the reopening day after 6 months of lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Like a lot of employers, Dean Burrows is looking for help these days. Many of the experienced machinists at Gear Motions, the company Burrows runs in Syracuse, N.Y., took early retirement during the pandemic. And finding replacements has not been easy.