Current:Home > NewsLong COVID and the labor market-LoTradeCoin
Long COVID and the labor market
View Date:2024-12-23 23:07:20
Jobs were on the up and up this August. But even though the total number of jobs returned to pre-pandemic levels, there's still nearly 3 million fewer people in the labor force. Where are they?
For many, the lasting health impacts of COVID-19 continue to haunt them. Whether it be headaches, brain fog or fatigue, "long haulers" with continued symptoms are scaling back their work for health reasons. But how can we capture this trend through numbers?
For Labor Day weekend, The Indicator will be taking a break! But for a break from your labor, check out our previous episodes on labor movements:
- What's really going on with unions
- The rise and fall and rise of organized labor
- A 21st century union
- How Amazon defeated the union
And from our friends at Planet Money:
- Nice work week if you can get it
- The strike that changed U.S. labor
- How the rat blew up
- When Reagan broke the unions
- Strike one
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Twitter / Facebook / Newsletter.
Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PocketCasts and NPR One.
veryGood! (7)
Related
- 2 more escaped monkeys recaptured and enjoying peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in South Carolina
- Texas rises in top five, Utah and LSU tumble in US LBM Coaches Poll after Week 5
- As Diamondbacks celebrate 'unbelievable' playoff berth, Astros keep eyes on bigger prize
- Grant program for Black women entrepreneurs blocked by federal appeals court
- Surprise bids revive hope for offshore wind in Gulf of Mexico after feds cancel lease sale
- Kansas police chief suspended in wake of police raid on local newspaper
- Taylor Swift's next rumored stadium stop hikes up ticket prices for Chiefs-Jets game
- Why you should read these 51 banned books now
- Whoopi Goldberg calling herself 'a working person' garners criticism from 'The View' fans
- The UK defense secretary suggests British training of Ukrainian soldiers could move into Ukraine
Ranking
- A pregnant woman sues for the right to an abortion in challenge to Kentucky’s near-total ban
- Inmate accused of killing corrections officer at Georgia prison
- Nobel Prize announcements are getting underway with the unveiling of the medicine prize
- NFL in London highlights: How Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars topped Falcons in Week 4 victory
- 15 new movies you'll want to stream this holiday season, from 'Emilia Perez' to 'Maria'
- Week 5 college football winners, losers: Bowers powers Georgia; Central Florida melts down
- 'Poor Things': Emma Stone's wild Frankenstein movie doesn't 'shy away' from explicit sex
- McCaffrey scores 4 TDs to lead the 49ers past the Cardinals 35-16
Recommendation
-
Ariana Grande's Brunette Hair Transformation Is a Callback to Her Roots
-
Indonesia is set to launch Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, largely funded by China
-
Julianne Moore channeled Mary Kay Letourneau for Netflix's soapy new 'May December'
-
College football Week 5 grades: Bloviating nonsense has made its way to 'College GameDay'
-
Advocates Expect Maryland to Drive Climate Action When Trump Returns to Washington
-
Africa at a crossroads as more democracies fall to military coups, experts say
-
Lawrence, Ridley and defense help Jaguars beat Falcons 23-7 in London
-
Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh region as 65,000 forcefully displaced