There are proposals being worked on to make life better; however, some do literally take an act of congress. Congress doesn’t like to function well either. And all government offices operate at a snails pace.
Hiring quality people is not just an MSC problem. As others stated, ours and many other countries military can’t get enough people. Nor can the local grocery store and restaurant in your home town. Especially good hard working people.
As we boomers continue die out, the problem will just get worse. That was predicted back in the 1970’s. So why are people now surprised it’s happening? Add in people now days don’t want to do physical labor. The housing industry has bemoaned about this for years. But why should anyone want to do physical labor, when kids can make a good living playing video games all day.