(ChurchLeaders) In a series of tweets Monday, evangelist Franklin Graham addressed America’s labor shortage, blaming Democrats for disincentivizing work. Graham’s Labor Day posts coincided with the end of pandemic-related federal jobless benefits, which some experts say made it difficult to fill open positions.
Franklin Graham on a ‘Troubling’ Situation
Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, tweeted: “Today we celebrate the American worker—the entrepreneurs [with] their dreams & the workers [with] their skills who built this nation. But it’s troubling to see the disregard we now see for hard work. Almost every business is trying to hire people, but so many don’t want to work.”