Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20210623:03:36:00
>> yeah, i want to be careful about calling ateit a worker shortage. a different way of looking at the labor market is how many people would be employed if we had a prepandemic trend? it would be about 10 million people more. 10 million missing jobs is about as bad as the darkest days of the 2008, 2009 recession. so this is an economy that's still hurting. the real question is how optimistic or pessimistic should we be going forward? >> so you said not a worker shortage, right? >> yeah, so look, here is one way to think about it. imagine the pandemic caused havoc and singles and that would sur...