“What might have been.”
That’s the subtext of the latest update to The Heritage Foundation’s “What Is Happening in This Unprecedented U.S. Labor Market?” Written by the policy shop’s Rachel Greszler, the analysis laments that when judged against pre-lockdown employment rates, “2.0 million fewer people are working today.”
Three years. No net growth of employment for the world’s largest, most diversified, most technologically advanced, most dynamic economy.
Wait, it gets worse:
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