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We have 3.2 million teachers in the USA. We have 4.2 million RN's (they are also all quitting) Where are they going to all go?
by bluedino 4y ago
We have 3.2 million teachers in the USA. We have 4.2 million RN's (they are also all quitting)
Where are they going to all go?
- Mikeb85 4y agoThe majority are women. Perhaps they won't work and their families will accept a lower cost of living. Perhaps into service jobs. A decent chunk are close to retirement age anyway.
- bluedino 4y agoService jobs are gone, and lower cost of living with this inflation?
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThey probably meant lower standard of living.
- Mikeb85 4y agoYes I did lol. Thanks!
- lkbm 4y agoIf you have kids, not paying for childcare can save you tens of thousands of dollars per year. Or perhaps you now have the option of moving to a cheaper city, or further from your former workplace. That could easily be a double-digit percentage savings from your budget. EDIT: And, uh...there are tons of service jobs in my city. Haven't you heard the endless whining from business owners that "nobody wants to work anymore"? They're struggling to fill openings.
- starkd 4y agoThey all aren't leaving. If only 10% decide to call it quits, it can feel like an exodus. Hence the exagerated headlines. It's still enough to inflict pressure.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoThere are 11 million open jobs in the US at the moment, and that’s just the US if these people don’t decide to expatriate to better countries who are desperately seeking skilled/educated workers. Edit: Due to demographic shifts, about a million people dropped out of the labor force during COVID (death, retirement, etc) and there’s a 300k worker shortage predicted every year (slowly increasing YoY) until 2034 (when we’ll have a 900k workers shortage). High level, population pyramids are incompatible with dysfunctional economic systems that rely on perpetual growth.