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Rural Utah businesses face labor squeeze amid immigration fears
Original: Rural Utah still feels the labor squeeze of rising costs and immigration fears
Rural Utah employers are struggling to fill jobs as rising operating costs and fears around immigration enforcement combine to shrink an already thin labor pool. Local reporting from NPR Utah's KUER describes businesses caught between higher wages and prices and a workforce hesitant to show up, leaving communities that depend on immigrant labor facing persistent shortages.
Why now: National debate over immigration enforcement is intensifying labor shortages and cost pressures in rural communities that depend on immigrant workers.
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Evidence
- Rural Utah still feels the labor squeeze of rising costs and immigration fears · KPCW
- Rural Utah still feels the labor squeeze of rising costs and immigration fears · NPR Utah | KUER
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