The tight labor market continues

By Mike Switzer

Published September 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

Kinya Curry, area manager for Roper Staffing in Columbia, SC.

We continue to hear that employers are still having a hard time finding qualified employees…in other words, the labor market is still tight. So we thought we’d check in with someone who is in the employee business. Mike Switzer interviews Kinya Curry, area manager for Roper Staffing in Columbia, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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