There's something like ten point four million open jobs right now, and there's fewer than eight million unemployed people. Part of the reason for that is these are jobs where you have to be there in person. These are also jobs that traditionally pay very little. The data shows that leisure and hospitality wages have gone up an unprecedented jump, something like thirt n % last month over a year earlier. But, you know, that's still only 16 bucks an hour. That's still less than a iven retail you know. So when people are rethinking their lives and whether it’s worth it to put their lives at risk? Is it working?
There are millions of job openings in America, and millions of Americans are still not able to find work that suits. In the first part of our series, The Future of Work, Recode’s Rani Molla explains “the great reassessment.”
Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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