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we thrived post covid and then the republicans killed it and put their boots on our necks

from Heather Long: Bleak July jobs report: -23,000 jobs lost in July -264,000 people leave labor force -Wage growth falls to 3.2% = lowest in 5 years (and totally wiped out by inflation right now) ***Lowest labor force participation rate since February 2021*** @byheatherlong.bsky.social

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ellen l

@elovelidge.com

8 Aug

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Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com

"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."

newrepublic.comTrump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt WomenAnd the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.

ellen l

@elovelidge.com

8 Aug

i’m not even trying to find this stuff bsky.app/profile/fain...

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

The fact that US laobr force participation rate has dropped to the lowest level in 50 years - which most seem to attribute to “people giving up on getting another job” - may also help explain why so many people feel bad about the economy.

cnbc.comJob seekers giving up: Labor force participation rate falls to lowest in 50 years, outside of Covid eraA drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all the wrong reasons.