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While the latest jobs report was a total bust, coming in well under where even the most hardened realists expected it to land, its not all bad news about the American economy.
Across the nation, employers small, medium and large are struggling to find enough staff to get up and running again, now that we have a vaccine for COVID-19 and things are starting to open back up.
Republicans insist this is due to the over-generous unemployment benefits, and some Republican governors are already beginning to warn the idle that their pandemic “vacations” will soon be coming to an end.
Republicans also point to the fact that, though most health authorities indicate it is safe for school-age children to be back in school, many public schools remain stubbornly closed.
Democrats, on the other hand, insist that generous unemployment benefits and closed public schools have nothing whatsoever to do with the stalling economy. People, and especially women, aren’t returning to the workforce yet, they argue, because the nation urgently needs free childcare for all.
The trends are difficult to ignore, however. Soon, it will be impossible. There is simply no denying the fact that…