U-6, which covers people who have been temporarily discouraged from working but want to come back is 7.3%.
If anything is keeping people out of the work force, it’s childcare issues, not anti-work.
If anything is keeping people out of the work force, it’s childcare issues, not anti-work.
Anti-work only actually comes into play in boomers who retired during the pandemic! Everyone else is effectively working if they can.
This is just a pure labor shortage - driven by demographic shifts that were years in the making and just now accelerated and by childcare shortages that are nearly fully state-driven