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Manufacturing Companies Use Job Perks To Entice Workers To Relocate

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Published February 3, 2020 at 12:20 PM CST

With the unemployment rate at a 50-year low, employers are sweetening the pot for workers willing to relocate for unfilled jobs.

That’s true not just in tech, finance and other industries long associated with cushy perks, but also in manufacturing, where there are roughly a million vacant jobs — the most in nearly two decades.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Austen Hufford (@austenhufford), a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.