How machine learning can help alleviate the U.S. labor shortage

Experts have been debating the causes of the shortage of workers in the U.S. But one thing is painfully clear: There is a staggering disparity between the number of jobs available (over 10 million) and the number of workers looking for work (around 6 million).

In this short article, we’ll step back and take a look at how we got here, the multiple factors that have led to such a disparity, and some of the solutions being implemented to try to fight this problem. Notably, we’ll take a look at machine learning (ML) and how it is being used to alleviate both the causes and the effects of the labor shortage in the U.S.