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A Style Guide for a Good Jobs Economy | Opinion Katie Bach and Alison Omens On 6/4/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
In public discourse, words matter.
They shape how we understand issues and what we do about them. That s why we saw heated debate across the aisle recently about whether care and human services should be considered infrastructure. It s why calling low-wage workers essential was such a profound shift. And it s why we re hearing about labor shortages instead of inadequate wages.
The language we use to talk about work often reinforces our status quo: a low-wage economy in which tens of millions of working Americans are barely making ends meet.
U.S. employers added a modest 559,000 jobs in May, an improvement from April’s sluggish gain but still evidence that many companies are struggling to find enough workers as the economy rapidly recovers from the pandemic recession.