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Mike DeWine: “We simply did not have enough employees. They could not fill…”

Featuring: Mike DeWine, Republican | Governor of Ohio

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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine speaks in Springfield, Ohio

Published | Video Starts at 08:49

And they all kind of told us the same story, that after the pandemic and things started moving forward, they We simply did not have enough employees. They could not fill these slots. They started seeing that they could have Haitians do that and they started doing that and they started employing them. We had one person told me, I'm not even sure my business would be here, but for the Haitians. (08:49–09:00)

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Asserts that there was a shortage of employees post-pandemic.

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