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US General Domestic Politics #19 Begins 06/03/21.


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19 minutes ago, Ridgerunner said:

How long before the "woke" people running the Biden administration want to change Mother's Day to Birthing People Day. Fuck you ignorant Stalinist woke language police.

BTW, Fuck your Fascist Authoritarianism.

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On 6/9/2021 at 10:29 AM, Ridgerunner said:

9.3 million job openings in the country, and we still need federally enhanced unemployment benefits?:huh:

U.S. job openings hit record 9.3 million – but more people are quitting than ever - MarketWatch

The economy added a combined 837,000 new jobs in May and April, but that still leaves the U.S. more than 7.6 million short compared to the last month before the onset of the pandemic.

At the same time, a record number of people are quitting their jobs. Nearly 4 million people quit in April — double the number from just one year ago.

About 6.1 million people were hired in April, but that still left one in three job openings unfilled. And there’s now more job openings than there are unemployed people.

The number of people who left jobs — either by quitting, retiring, getting laid off or fired — rose slightly to 5.8 million.

Big picture: The economic recovery is pretty strong, but it would be even stronger if companies could hire more people. Many businesses say they are losing out on sales because they don’t have enough staff to produce goods or serve customers. Even higher pay hasn’t been enough to lure enough workers.

The surprising difficulty in getting people to return to work is tied to a number of problems, economists say. They blame a wave of early retirements, a lack of child-care options, a lingering fear of the coronavirus and generous unemployment benefits.

“Despite strong wage growth, generous unemployment benefits and stimulus funds have prevented workers from re-entering the labor force,” said economist Katherine Judge of CIBC World Markets.

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