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Will the Pandemic Last?
Incomes were rising for poor people even before the pandemic, but you saw really in the past two years a few things happen. Target is now hiring employees at hourly wage rates north of $20 an hour. The deep question and the hard question is, will it last? Part of the explanation is, labor markets sometimes get stuck in weird equilibria; everything breaks a little bit.