For our very first episode we’re tackling the ongoing labor shortages that continue to threaten the health of the supply chain with Saru Jayaraman, the President of One Fair Wage, Jasmine Donovan, the President and CFO of Dick's Drive-In, and Zero100 researchers Colin Gilbert and Eddie Toledo. Despite massive job openings, positions are going unfilled. So what’s it going to take to get folks back to work? Kevin says the key is increasing wages – big time. And increased wages, he predicts, will be followed by increased investment in automation. So what does all that mean for workers and businesses?

• Saru Jayaraman 
• One Fair Wage  
• MIT living wage calculator 
• The US Has Reversed Pandemic Job Losses. Most Individual States Haven't.  
• Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It’s the 1970s  
• Jobs Are Back, Baby, But Maybe Not Your Job  
• College Enrollment is Down – But There’s a Silver Lining 
• Data Deep Dive: A Decline of Women in the Workforce 
• The value of the federal minimum wage is at its lowest point in 66 years  
• Inflation 2022 is a One-Time Demand for Higher Pay  
• 23 Essential Gig Economy Statistics 
• The State of Gig Work in 2021 
• New Research: Reskilling & Upskilling in the Age of Automation 
• The importance of manufacturing industry diversity 
• How unions are winning again, in 4 charts 
• Tensions rise in West Coast port labor battles, with unions and management trading accusations 
• Rate of union membership of employees in the United States from 1983 to 2021 
• Here's how automation and job creation can go hand in hand 
• Jasmine Donovan 
• Dick’s Drive-In  
• How Dick's Drive-In pays workers $19 an hour with a menu completely under $5 
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don’t, Jim Collins