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Where Did All the Workers Go?
Brownstone Institute ^ | January 20, 2023 | Bret Swanson

Posted on 01/23/2023 7:03:57 AM PST by Heartlander

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To: SaveFerris

Well, the amount of abuse possible (and actual) in the SSI system is a big problem.
Well, it would be more correct to say IT IS A SYMPTOM of a very big problem.


21 posted on 01/23/2023 8:24:38 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: All

Have wages gone up since worker shortage ?


22 posted on 01/23/2023 8:26:21 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Heartlander

Something weird about the graphs.

Take the 1st one, Monthly Deaths in U.S. - 30-34 Year Olds. It shows 2020 ending around 3700 deaths and gently sloping upward.

Then 2021 picks up around 3900 deaths and is sharply sloping downward.

That sharp change in slope doesn’t make sense. Other graphs in the series have the same behavior.


23 posted on 01/23/2023 8:30:34 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Heartlander

As the voice of reason… for the sake of rational debate.. this age group had 4 Facebook experiments performed during their teen years. Facebook has detailed these… this coincides with my experience in seeing higher than usual suicide rates at that time. Does this data correct for fentanyl deaths and suicide?


24 posted on 01/23/2023 9:04:33 AM PST by momincombatboots (QEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: dragnet2

The pendulum is soon to swing back that way. Biden Recession is here and the lay offs are coming in like the tide.


25 posted on 01/23/2023 9:06:21 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: ThunderStruck94

As a former military guy you realize that you need to understand the territory.

That is called gathering intel.

In the job market that means talking to people who know what is actually happening out there—and that will give you the intel you need to customize your approach.

It can as simple as talking to Home Depot employees and asking them who was recently hired and what they think the reasons were they were hired.

For other potential employers find out the bar where the workers hang out after work—go there—talk to them—gather intel.

You can make a resume say anything you want—but you need to target it to get inside the heads of the hiring officials.


26 posted on 01/23/2023 9:10:53 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ThunderStruck94

The wokesters are running HR. If you are not a card carrying wokester you don’t get an interview. My daughter has a degree in hospital administration and is working on a master’s degree. She cannot get work, not even interviews.


27 posted on 01/23/2023 9:17:55 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

See post 26.

Getting hired is a skill—even when/especially when the hiring officials are nutty as fruit-cakes.

There are rules—but you cannot assume you know what they are—she is going to have to do the work to find out the precise details of who gets hired and why.

It is very easy to meet any criteria known to humanity—and get hired. But—you must know the correct criteria, no assumptions, no guessing allowed.


28 posted on 01/23/2023 9:21:45 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Ikeon

My cat is sick I can’t come in.
My favorite TV show is on today I can’t come in.
My car won’t start I can’t come in (they lived 3 minutes away walking)

I’ve heard some doozies


29 posted on 01/23/2023 9:44:54 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: AbolishCSEU
Recession is here and the lay offs are coming in like the tide.

Ya mean they're going to lay off those who actually wanted to work? lol...

30 posted on 01/23/2023 10:06:34 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ThunderStruck94

My son lives in Tennessee, and my daughter was a manager in both Tennessee, and the Portland Oregon area.

Sorry you are having difficulties.


31 posted on 01/23/2023 10:13:58 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: eyeamok

If you take ten average people and say five out that ten know at least one or more of their friends, colleagues, or relatives who have been permanently disabled or died after taking the jab you have some numbers starting to pile up. I know the FR jab death cult screams for numbers and then rejects any put forward but it’s hard to collect numbers when doctors, hospitals and healthcare facilities will not report them and then you have entities like VAERS, CDC and FDA, hiding or manipulating the numbers.

If you still believe what the CDC and FDA are telling you about anything at this point you are a special kind of stupid.

There are going to be lots of job openings in the next five years from early deaths and permanently disabilities and lots of kids are going to have their lives cut short because they followed the horse crap that passed for medical science in the USA in 2021-2022.


32 posted on 01/23/2023 10:25:39 AM PST by sarge83
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To: sarge83
Vax vax vax, Is that all the you purebloods think about?

Even the TDS hero, Mini MAGA Ron, got the jab:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has received a single-dose coronavirus vaccine, his office confirmed Wednesday.

A spokesperson for the Republican governor declined to provide details, including when exactly the Republican governor received the dose. But it was later disclosed that the governor last week received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine requiring only a single dose.

33 posted on 01/23/2023 10:30:25 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

You offer no logical explanation of why heart attacks and blood clots went ballistic in 2021-2022 in the population in age groups NEVER seen before. If it were the covid virus itself wouldn’t we have seen these same numbers in 2020, especially by the end of 2020? Other than the virus the only difference is the jab.

If you want to take it, take it, that is your choice, but don’t get mad at people who didn’t take it, that was my choice. To deny the jab is causing a slew of deaths and catastrophic health issues is just more of the same covid fake science and wishful thinking: 6th feet distancing, wearing a useless mask and those stupid plexiglass shields in one place. I truly hope if you took it you have no side effects ever but you having to worry is on you, don’t get mad at me because I don’t have to worry about them, it was your choice.


34 posted on 01/23/2023 12:08:27 PM PST by sarge83
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To: sarge83

You offer no reason to keep harping the vax. It is getting kind of kooky obsessive.


35 posted on 01/23/2023 12:41:36 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: cgbg

Thanks for the info.

Here is a crazy example: I went to Lowes to interview. The manager asked about me. I told him I am retired military. The guy said “we really don’t want that kind of “retired” attitude here at Lowes”.....the guy had no idea what retired military was.


36 posted on 01/23/2023 3:39:34 PM PST by ThunderStruck94
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To: ThunderStruck94

What’s your degree / area of work you want?


37 posted on 01/23/2023 8:38:55 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: moovova

It hit me when I saw these workers from South of the Border working on constructing houses in 100+ degree weather.

Maybe Bush was right about “Jobs Americans don’t want to do” after all. It’s become a self-fulfilling prophecy.


38 posted on 01/23/2023 8:41:50 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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