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MADISON, Wis. \u2014 More than a year after restaurants and cafes were forced to shut their doors because of the COVID-19 pandemic, laying off millions of workers, Wisconsin\u2019s small business owners are quick to say that they\u2019re having a hard time re-hiring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Caleb Nicholes, who is a co-owner of Wonderstate Coffee in Madison, Wisconsin, which opened a downtown location during the pandemic, said the company has been putting out job applications and isn\u2019t getting responses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cZero,\u201d he emphasized, standing in his bustling cafe across the street from the state\u2019s Capitol Building. Every available indoor table was filled with patrons, as several baristas worked at the coffee counter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Business owners have been complaining about a tight labor market, and alarm bells have been going off about a \u201clabor shortage,\u201d where businesses are reopening but struggling to find enough workers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Republicans and conservative-leaning business groups like the Chamber of Commerce are blaming federal unemployment benefits \u2014 a boosted $300 per week in federal benefits added on top of state benefits to tide over unemployed Americans until September. Already, Republican governors in two states, Montana and South Carolina, said they\u2019re ending the federal benefit ahead of its September expiration date in order to get people back to work.<\/p>\n

But on-the-ground business owners see the issue as bigger than just unemployment aid. A lot of their workers have families, and going back to work is a financial gamble.<\/p>\n

Nicholes cited the federal unemployment benefit as one reason workers might want to stay jobless for now, but also noted child care.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe know this has disproportionately affected women,\u201d Nicholes said, saying he\u2019s seeing a lot of single mothers who simply can\u2019t work right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s jobs report showed employers had added only 266,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate rose to 6.1%, even as business restrictions have loosened with increased vaccinations. Nicholes is on to something.<\/span><\/p>\n

While 400,000 more Americans are working or looking for work as of April, labor force participation among women fell by 64,000 in the last month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Melissa Buchholz, co-owner of Milwaukee restaurant Odd Duck, said she saw several of her former employees move on from the hospitality industry altogether. They went back to school and into the tech industry. One of her workers of nearly nine years lost both her parents during the pandemic and had to move away to take care of family affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

And among the biggest reasons she cited were the former employees who were forced to become stay-at-home parents with schools closed and day care out of reach.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who haven\u2019t made money in a year, who have been on unemployment, regardless of that extra unemployment, they\u2019re not making enough to think about the future and to think about having to pay child care,\u201d Buchholz said. \u201cAnd then to think they might not make money at the restaurant for another month because the paycheck doesn\u2019t come for two weeks \u2014 that\u2019s not a calculation they can do. They are stuck in a holding pattern.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the National Restaurant Association, which has lobbied vigorously against raising the subminimum wages for restaurant workers, has noticed this pattern. The organization\u2019s senior vice president, Hudson Riehle, acknowledged \u201cthe need for caregivers to remain at home\u201d as one of the reasons restaurants are having trouble hiring.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen cited both the absence of affordable or accessible child care and irregular school schedules as two reasons why the April jobs report wasn\u2019t strong. Child care is a major pillar of the Biden administration\u2019s American Families Plan, which <\/span>includes $225 billion for expanding and improving access<\/span>\u00a0to child care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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