By Tyler Durden | 17 April 2022
ZERO HEDGE — Drug and alcohol abuse are starting to negatively effect the labor force participation rate, according to a new study by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta researcher Karen Kopecky, Jeremy Greenwood of the University of Pennsylvania and Nezih Guner of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
The study was reported last week by Bloomberg in this writeup.
What it found was that between 9% and 26% of the decline in prime-age labor-force participation between February 2020 and June 2021 was due to “increased substance abuse”.
Labor force participation between ages 25 and 54 has yet to full recover since March 2020’s plunge, the report says. So far, the Fed has blamed that on “issues with child care and elder care, in-person schools being closed, concerns about getting sick and extra unemployment benefits.”
The labor force participation rate remains one of the key factors that the Fed is hoping to influence as they move to raise rates throughout the year. […]
Just remember…
Kay Griggs pointed out why marijuana was illegal.I
It defeats brainwashing.
Obviously some people are TOO STUPID to be allowed pot or guns,
But any sane rational human would start freeing themselves or never fully be
Brainwashed by the kosher kakistocratic state…
Russ. Hoping the above Comment didn’t cause you any problem my friend. Can you please remove it for me. Seems someone like Bill Gates still has a hand in the Microsoft cookie jar, enough to post my real full name – somehow converted from JackGarner – to apparently cause me some problems. Interestingly enough, there’s been some Trojan-Horse goons on me for the past week, as well. No biggy. Sorry bout this Russ. Stay well my friend.