Yellen says the labor force participation is "quite depressed" compared to pre-pandemic levels
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The uneven job recovery — namely a shortage of workers — is a direct result of the pandemic, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan in an exclusive interview Friday.
"When we really get control of the pandemic, I think labor supply will go back to normal," Yellen predicted.
Yellen pointed to several reasons for an "abnormally low" supply of labor — including a shortage of childcare workers and educators, which "creates childcare problems."
Billions of cicadas are emerging across about 16 states in the Southeast and Midwest. Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years, depending on their brood. But in a warming world where spring conditions arrive sooner, climate change is messing with the bugs' internal alarm clocks.
Senate Democrats to unveil package to protect IVF as party makes reproductive rights push this month
Washington — A group of Senate Democrats is set to unveil a new package to protect access to IVF on Monday, as the party makes a push around reproductive rights this month — two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.