The US workforce has gotten significantly older and more diverse
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America's workforce is considerably older and more diverse than it was 40-some years ago.
Federal labor economists recently analyzed federal labor data to see just how much the nation's labor force has changed in recent decades, according to a Sept. 1 blog post on the US Bureau of Labor Statistics site. In examining the Consumer Population Survey data, the economists looked "peak to peak," zeroing in on 1979 and 2019 — two high points of employment and economic activity.The DeepSeek drama may have been briefly eclipsed by, you know, everything in Washington (which, if you can believe it, got even crazier Wednesday). But rest assured that over in Silicon Valley, there has been nonstop, Olympic-level pearl-clutching over this Chinese upstart that managed to singlehandedly wipe out hundreds of billions of dollars in market cap in just a few hours and put America’s mighty tech titans on their heels.
At her first White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made an unusual claim about inflation that has stung American shoppers for years: Leavitt said egg prices have continued to surge because “the Biden administration and the department of agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens, which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country, therefore lack of egg supply, which is leading to the shortage.”