Reintegrating America’s Marginalized Workers

As of the second quarter of 2019, there were over a million more job openings than job seekers and the biggest shortage was in blue-collar demographics.   Yet, the U6 unemployment rate is 7.3% and there continue to be 47.5 million U.S. residents between 18 and 65 years-old who are not in the labor force.  Why is this?  What are the implications?  And, what can be done to resolve the mismatch?  We’ll show you.

Our January 2019 issue highlighted one of the most important themes e.....