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‘We’re all scratching our heads’: the US labour market paradox

Job shortages have coincided with the prospect of lay-offs while unemployment is down to a historically low 3.5%

America’s largest newspaper publisher has a problem: it cannot find enough people to toss editions on to readers’ doorsteps.

Gannett, which publishes more than 250 titles from the Abilene Reporter-News to USA Today, is short of about 1,000 drivers to drop off papers in the small hours of the morning. About 12 per cent of its delivery routes are now unstaffed.

Yet at the same time, Gannett has told employees that “painful” cuts to staffing are coming as it tries to control costs in its declining print operations.

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