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Excess retirements, less immigration, long COVID and disappearance of low-wage service workers might all account for labour woes. Read on.

Millions of workers are still missing from the U.S. labor force three years after covid-19 surfaced, and economists are scratching their heads as to how big the gap actually is and where all these people went.

Millions of workers are still missing from the labor force three years after COVID-19 surfaced. Economists are trying to determine where they went.

Millions of workers are still missing from the U.S. labor force three years after COVID-19 surfaced, and economists are scratching their heads as to how big the gap actually is

One estimate found at least 2.1 million who retired earlier then expected. Another calculated a shortfall of 2 million immigrants at the height of the pandemic. Other research pointed to a million or more out of work because of long Covid.

Excess retirements, less immigration, long COVID and disappearance of low-wage service workers might all account for labour woes. Read on.

The labor-force participation rate stands at 62.4%, stubbornly below its pre-Covid level of 63.3%.

Millions of workers are still missing from the U.S. labor force three years after covid-19 surfaced, and economists are scratching their heads as to how big the gap actually is and where all these people went. One estimate found at least 2.1 million who retired earlier then expected. Another calculated

After the pandemic, the labor force is approximately 3 million short as many workers retired early, immigration slowed and long COVID forced other workers to stay home.

If approved by a majority of voters, Measure C would strike the entirety of the Midway-Pacific Highway Community Plan area from the coastal zone in the city’s municipal code. The change would lift the building-height ban for the district, allowing towers up to 100 feet on some parcels.