Women have left the labor market, for whatever reasons, including taking care of their kids as daycare is expensive, schools are not reliably open with cases increasing where there are no mask mandates, etc.
A favorite restaurant right on the water, the intercoastal in Florida has a whole new crew of employees after last year’s covid shutdown. Not one of the people I knew who worked there for the last 8 years or so that I know of, returned.
If you live in a metro area, you can see the changes in the covid era. If you live in a small town, there aren’t many choices.
So, I am not sure we’ll go back to people being employed that is measurable, more like a wave of an economy in flux, especially as Congress has done nothing with infrastructure, because of republicans wanting it to stay there so they can claim next year that Dems did nothing when it is them who sit and do nothing. I mean the Senate passed the infrastructure bill, and McCarthy told his minions to vote against it, against what republican senators voted for. We are in crazy times.
Add 70 million unvaccinated and change is a far fetched dream.
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