LINCOLN- With Nebraska currently unable to fill an estimated 80,000 jobs, the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry believes a push to boost the Nebraska tech image may increase our overall workforce numbers. "This next generation goes where the technology jobs are," said Bryan Slone, president of the Nebraska Chamber, "we need to be known as a technology state."

The Chamber outlined that, alongside Gov. Pillen's budget and tax plan, they are also in support of any bill that would help solve Nebraska's urgent workforce problem, especially bills that focus on tax breaks for businesses. Another approach the Chamber believes Nebraska should take is to renew the state's research and development tax credit, and allow deductions for business equipment, research, and experimental costs.

ANother problem cited by Slone to be a cause of the recent shortage is Nebraska's declining birth rate, which has dropped significantly over the past 6 decades. "We're not replacing boomers with new people in Nebraska," said Slone, "Each year we need to be recruiting thousands of people to Nebraska just to fill those exiting the job market."

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