[FRIAM] Where are all the workers going?

[Steve Smith]

This is total speculation/projection:

Maybe people in service roles got a wake up call to their
vulnerability.  Maybe the relief programs gave *some* of them to find
alternative lifestyles or employment so they don't have to go back to
that position.  And likely the personal service categories might be even
more acutely involved since their work would nominally involve more risk
of being exposed to COVID and/or exposing others.   Health care workers
would seem to top that list, adding the kind of grief they apparently
get from the anti-crowd who want to paint them as snowflakes or even
crisis-actors....   Thankless shite all the way around.

On 10/13/21 8:33 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
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> From the New Mexican:
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> The field with the most vacancies is health care, with over 13,100
> openings, he said. Hotels and restaurants also are hurting for
> workers, he said.
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> …
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> The number of New Mexicans filing for unemployment claims has dropped
> from about 50,000 in early September — when most extended federal
> unemployment benefits came to an end — to just over 18,000 this week,
> Serna said.
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> Is everybody just “smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo. 
> (Now don’t tell me; I’ve nothing to do.) “
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> Nick
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