Lawrence Gillum
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370 appearances
20 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 11 Sep
Lawrence Gillum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As a result, she says the number of immigrants in the labor force can affect the labor force participation rate.
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Ulrich says this tends to affect the participation rate for younger workers, since immigrants typically skew younger.
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But a bigger issue that's pushing down participation rates is that the population is getting older.
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Preston Mui is senior economist with the advocacy group Employ America.
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Thing is, all those people who've retired still consume goods and services.
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And Moy says in order to produce those goods and services, we need people to work.
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Mui says there are a few ways the economy can step up to meet that demand.
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For one, more people in their prime working age could enter the labor force.
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Existing workers could also become more productive.
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Otherwise, Mui says the economy could slow down.
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I'm Justin Ho for Marketplace.
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Throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s, the gender wage gap got narrower.
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Kate Bond, chief economist at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, says that was thanks to more women entering the workforce, broader minimum wage protections and better access to contraception.
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Bond says a lot of that progress was down to policy decisions by lawmakers, and by the 2000s and 2010s, it stalled.
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Then came the pandemic.
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Demand for low-wage labor spiked, so wages did too.
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But since the pandemic, the gap has started widening again.
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A lot of the job growth in the economy has shifted away from those lower wage positions that help boost women's average earnings, says Yana Rogers, a professor at Rutgers University.
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Also, Rogers says women are still disproportionately responsible for taking care of children and elders at home.
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That constraint is a bigger challenge for women now that many employers expect their workers to be back in the office, says Courtney Schubert, an economist with Macro Policy Perspectives.
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