“America, and California in particular, is suffering from a labor shortage.
The US has roughly a 63% labor participation. Offer higher wages, and perhaps that will increase.
California gets a nearly a third of all welfare. Let them get able-bodied welfare recipients to work. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-other-state-comes-close-to-california-when-it-comes-to-welfare-spending-2017-11-28