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Sunday, January 23, 2022

Downside of the Great Resignation Trend

The Underside of the ‘Great Resignation’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-underside-of-the-great-resignation-labor-participation-rate-workforce-men-employment-pay-jobs-welfare-ubi-11642777828
“Journalists and economists who cheer on the Great Resignation often stigmatize work in the same breath, writing off low-paid jobs as not worth taking.
“It’s astonishingly condescending to say that some work is meaningless,” Mr. Eberstadt says. “And it shows an astonishing ignorance of how other people live.” It’s wonderful that millions of people are finding better work. But there are millions more who could fill the jobs they’re vacating, and disdain for low-skill work helps keep those people away.

Men Are Getting Left Behind in the Jobs Boom
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-24/the-jobs-boom-is-leaving-more-men-behind
Economic upheaval has been pushing a disproportionate number of men out of the workforce, and a growing number never come back. One solution lies in high school.