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Measuring long Covid's impact on the labor market (with Katie Bach)

Measuring long Covid's impact on the labor market (with Katie Bach)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer


Measuring long Covid's impact on the labor market (with Katie Bach)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Sep 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Millions of Americans are being kept out of the workforce due to the lingering effects of Covid, resulting in billions of dollars in lost wages and productivity. How is this affecting our economy? Returning guest Katie Bach shares the findings from her new report which outlines just how severe the labor market effects of long Covid have become.

Kathryn Bach is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute and the CBO of &pizza.

Twitter: @kathrynsbach

New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work

Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/
Twitter: @PitchforkEcon
Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics
Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer
Released:
Sep 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.