Where did millions of U.S. workers still missing after pandemic go?
Excess retirements, less immigration, long COVID and disappearance of low-wage service workers might all account for labour woes. Read on.
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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.
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.
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