United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 4 hours ago

Labor force participation falls to 61.5%, the lowest in 50 years outside COVID, and economists say it's not just people giving up

2

12

Labor force participation falls to 61.5%, the lowest in 50 years outside COVID, and economists say it's not just people giving up

United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 4 hours ago

2

Labor force participation falls to 61.5%, the lowest in 50 years outside COVID, and economists say it's not just people giving up | Fortune

Although AI and tech innovation is blamed for that drop, it has more to do with the lack of supply relative to the number of jobs that are available.

Chat

ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
link
fedilink
arrow-up
2·
edit-2
2 hours ago
So many paywalls and adblock-blockers. Msm is dead to me. I’ll just assume it says “shit’s fucked, yo; but capital is cool”

United States | News & Politics@midwest.social

usa@midwest.social

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !usa@midwest.social

Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

No pics of text

Memes are now allowed, as long as they’re US centric, general political memes please see !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca

Post news related to the United States.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

187 users / day
858 users / week
2.04K users / month
5.44K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
4.12K subscribers
3.97K Posts
7.64K Comments
Modlog