The labor force participation rate looks absolutely terrible. You see the huge immediate drop when Covid hit, then a nearly-as-immediate bounce back recovering

The labor force participation rate looks absolutely terrible. You see the huge immediate drop when Covid hit, then a nearly-as-immediate bounce back recovering half the loss. But since August 2020 it's been flatlined. Are those people ever going to re-enter the workforce? Our recent history suggests maybe mostly not. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART