Two factors not mentioned are likely behind it, in my opinion
Long Covid took me out of the work force, and according to the CDC, 3.4% had it at the time of the survey.[1] According to Brookings, up to 4 million people are out of the work force because of it.[2]
My strong personal opinion is that teachers got handed a pile of shit when Covid started, their workload went through the roof with remote learning, then mixed learning, etc. Teachers usually spend a large part of their first year sick, one can only imagine that the threat of Covid variants is far worse. Those that could swing it at all have left teaching for good.
It's hard to go back to a life of being used and abused by the corporations. With the Covid policies, we found out just how little the corps actually care about their workers. Now they're begging to have them back. Good to see.
This almost reads like economists and business owners want over-65’s to return to the workforce when I thought the narrative was you should retire at that age?
Kind of eye opening and makes me think I should move somewhere like Denmark while I’m still young and working.
> Kind of eye opening and makes me think I should move somewhere like Denmark while I’m still young and working.
No part of the US wants any of us to retire. You are to work until you die and please do so after giving two months notice and please expire at home. If you can leave you should. We all should. Not many of us can leave.
why would they and why would american workers want them too. The US ha had wage stagnation for decades. In what world would those worker let corporations bring in competition. Why would the new hordes of gen x and millenial bosses hire the elderly.
This is only true with tortured data and a conveniently narrow definition of "wages". If you look at personal incomes (which is what people hear when you say "wages", and is what folks actually care about), you'll see that they've been rising rather consistently for the last 50 years.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 25.2 ms ] threadLong Covid took me out of the work force, and according to the CDC, 3.4% had it at the time of the survey.[1] According to Brookings, up to 4 million people are out of the work force because of it.[2]
My strong personal opinion is that teachers got handed a pile of shit when Covid started, their workload went through the roof with remote learning, then mixed learning, etc. Teachers usually spend a large part of their first year sick, one can only imagine that the threat of Covid variants is far worse. Those that could swing it at all have left teaching for good.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db480.htm
[2] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-data-shows-long-covid...
Kind of eye opening and makes me think I should move somewhere like Denmark while I’m still young and working.
No part of the US wants any of us to retire. You are to work until you die and please do so after giving two months notice and please expire at home. If you can leave you should. We all should. Not many of us can leave.
This is only true with tortured data and a conveniently narrow definition of "wages". If you look at personal incomes (which is what people hear when you say "wages", and is what folks actually care about), you'll see that they've been rising rather consistently for the last 50 years.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N