May 17, 2017
David Swenson, associate scientist, spoke with: Patricia Cohen, New York Times, about Iowa’s tight rural labor supply and the difficulty attracting labor to its meat packing facilities and Patt Johnson, Des Moines Register, about the metro Des Moines labor supple and the difficulty attracting lower-wage workers to dining, drinking, and retail establishments and River to River on IPR about the economic impact of local food and beverage production (the show’s larger topic was the boom in craft beer production) and Trent Rice, KASI about the tight labor supply in Iowa and the consequences economic growth.