3 more reasons for companies not to hire

Somebody’s wrong.

The Conference Board recently published a report predicting there will be an acute labor shortage — you heard that right — in several dozen occupations by 2022. In theory, that means the economic malaise of the past seven years will vanish as the unemployment rate plummets and wages soar, even in oversubscribed occupations that lose workers because they move to other sectors where pay and opportunity are better.