2024-02-03 00:08:29
The US economy has >5 million more jobs compared to the pre-pandemic peak. The staffing shortages are primarily due to strong labor demand, not weak labor supply. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(10-1-19) Author
2024-02-03 00:08:47
The economy has added millions of jobs as compared to before Covid [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(4-0-13) Author
2024-02-03 00:09:18
Staffing shortages occuring right now are not due to to COVID. The employment level is 157 million, higher than the COVID peak. [Link] Staffing "shortages" are due to heavy demand for employees. While each COVID death is tragic, deaths were elderly people who were not working. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(14-3-39) Author
2024-02-03 14:53:11
That content note is ABSURD, claiming that only elderly people died of covid and it hasn’t affected working age people is downright dangerous. Not only have people of all ages died of covid but at least 7% of the US population have had or currently have long covid. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(22-2-5) Author
2024-02-03 23:17:49
NNN- labour supply is constrained due to excess sickness in most countries, as confirmed by the International Labor Organisation’s recent report: World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2024. The OP claims are factual & well contextualised. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(5-0-2) Author
2024-02-05 03:10:37
As already mentioned in another note, covid can effect people of any age. Additionally if someone is elderly it doesn’t mean they aren’t working “Number of US workers aged 75 and up expected to increase 96.5% over next decade as some say ‘we must work until we die’“ [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-0-0) Author