BATON ROUGE, Louisiana Burger King is offering a $6,000 signing bonus to anyone who agrees to work for a year at one of its New Orleans outlets. Rally's has nearly doubled the pay for its restaurant workers to $10 an hour.
On any given day, contractors and business owners pass out fliers in downtown New Orleans promising $17 to $20 an hour plus benefits for people willing to swing a sledgehammer or cart away stinking debris from flood-devastated homes and businesses. Canal Street, once a crowded boulevard of commerce, now resembles a sparsely populated open-air job fair.
The high wages are due to the severe housing shortage. No housing, no workers. Blageur learns something new every day.
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