"The great American job machine" The whole previous decade needs to come with an asterisk when talking about job growth. Looking at job participation rates and

"The great American job machine" The whole previous decade needs to come with an asterisk when talking about job growth. Looking at job participation rates and those that have stopped looking completely from BLS paints a completely different story. The pandemic obviously isn't making things better, but it's just always been an afterthought when talking about job growth.