Santa Monica, decades ago, passed extremely stringent rent-control laws. An old story. Many are locked out of jobs. Rarely do economists agree on any given issue. Newspapers often write sympathetically about the travails of a poor family getting by on a husband's minimum wage.
Somebody has to go.
And the fifth, sixth and seventh don't get hired in the first place. A recent Montreal Expos-San Diego Padres baseball game perhaps provides an explanation. With San Diego batting, Montreal recorded three outs, and should have headed towards the dugout. But the apparently brain-frozen Expos remained in the field, and the next Padre batter ran the pitching count to 2 and 1 before somebody woke up. Montreal should be especially embarrassed, since the umpire's gaffe stood to cost them more.