Why Is the U.S. Perpetually Short of Nurses?

November 10, 2015

(The New Yorker) – The seeming intractability of this problem is highly unusual. In a relatively free society and economy, the tendency with any labor-supply shortage, in the face of steady or increasing demand, is that higher wages and other benefits will attract people to the profession, and the problem will largely resolve itself over time. Why has this not been the case with nursing?