Stacey Vanek-Smith

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2,095 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Sep

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Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers · The Fed Chair Won't Talk (But Markets Listened Anyway) | Off the Clock · 29 Aug 2026 podcast

Sixty percent said it they were just dropping out, choosing to drop out, not layoffs or something like that.

The other interesting factor of this is work from home flexibility.

A lot of that flexibility has been going away and that is the other big reason that people say we're starting to see women drop out of the workforce again.

Um, this makes me very sad.

We we

As long as we're being optimistic.

I wanted to give an homage to Dolly Parton, who always put such an optimistic spin on everything and was born just two years before they started collecting this data.

So this

Is my Dolly Parton bedazzled?

Because you know, she was a woman of substance and a woman of wisdom.

But she put on all this pink and all these sparkles.

So I took the chart, the very serious female labor force participation rate chart, and I Dolly Partoned it up.

Dolly Charton.

And this is the bigger perspective.

When Dolly Parton

was two years old, the female labor force participation rate was was under was about thirty percent.

And now look at it, it has climbed so much.

And although in the last ten years it has been a rockier road than we would like, I feel like Dolly would look at the big picture.

No, people should vote.

I think people are into the Fed.

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