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Jamie Raskin: “So it does. I mean, as you all in this room know better than I, when we see a 0.5 percentage point decrease in the labor…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2022
So it does. I mean, as you all in this room know better than I, when we see a 0.5 percentage point decrease in the labor participation rate, this is front-page news.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin acknowledges the economic impact of Long COVID on labor participation.

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