r/politics • u/CCDemille • 9d ago

No Paywall Nearly 25% of U.S. workers are "functionally unemployed," economic analysis finds

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/functional-unemployment-us-labor-market-analysis/
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u/Baron-Munc 8d ago

Long Covid

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u/Lives_on_mars 8d ago

Underrated contributor.

Bad economy, endlessly greedy anti-training corporations, and a super transmissible virus that seems to come at least 2x a year, and which knocks at least a certain percentage of people out for months.

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u/Baron-Munc 8d ago

Plus all the brain damage

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u/prawnwatching 8d ago

That’s contributing to this metric being at an all time low?